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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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But the player chose the concept and assigned the stats, so presumably they assigned them so that they match the concept and if they... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I mean, honestly, the whole idea of "dump stat" has always been about the attribute you could set low (whether because of some point...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.I cannot disagree more. Your subjective opinion about the purpose of stats is meaningful only to you. From my point of view, if stats...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I don't see any reason to be coy about this; how people play is largely their own business (as long as you acknowledge RPG gaming is...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
When it negatively impacts everyone else in the game? Sorry. You can get on board or find a game where it doesn't do that. 5 people...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Traveller 5e coming from World's Largest RPG in cooperation with Mongoose Publishing.Ultramodern5 is a science fiction setting. So is A5e's Voidrunner's Codex if no one plays a psychic. That game doesn't even have a...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later with Like.
I think that is the intent. ;) Let the players get interested enough to borrow elements from A5e for their 5e games. While some players...
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Micah Sweet reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
5e had BITF, i wonder how this conversation would be going (in regards to DnD at least) if having low stats actually made you pick and...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread So what's the deal with solo gaming?.Not a fan of no prep either, but that term has been used to describe a variety of games that strongly feature narrativist mechanics.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
There's a reason I specified my game. After all rolls are said and done, the player can swap any two stat numbers. The only way for a...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.See to me, you play what you roll, if that's the game you decided to play.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
His use of the word "my" did limit it to just him, though. If he had said that Sandbox play is THE One True Way, he'd be saying it broadly.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
@Micah Sweet By the way, despite how we butt heads on this (and related topics) all the time, you're one of the people here that I'd...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread OSR Why does OSR Design Draw You In?.It's very long, because it's also a reference for my players, and I wanted to not have to go through a bunch of documents to find a...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Xenolith234's post in the thread OSR Why does OSR Design Draw You In? with Like.
That's the only thing I idealize about 3e - not the class builds and theorycrafting, but the breadth of the simulationist toolbox that...