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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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You are describing one game that has little in the way of modern design because of D&D tradition. And even then, your description of the... -
Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.It might be hard to narrow it down to individual mechanics, because there have been many games and many things tried. I think a...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Star Wars WEG D6 - The Force Point - "Is it a good thing?".I was also thinking of Torg when I wrote my post. Torg also had the initiative deck with the drama and the standard scene side. The deck...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Star Wars WEG D6 - The Force Point - "Is it a good thing?" with Like.
West End Games, with Greg Costikyan, Bill Slavicsek, and Greg Gorden were really ahead of their time when it came to narrative mechanics...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Star Wars WEG D6 - The Force Point - "Is it a good thing?".I think the best approximation towards a solution I can come up with: If the narrative goal is that force points use happen if the...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Umbran's post in the thread ChatGPT lies then gaslights reporter with fake transcript with Like.
Yes, and they put cancer warnings on cigarettes in 1965. It took about twenty years for the percentage of people smoking to drop 10%...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread ChatGPT lies then gaslights reporter with fake transcript.The pessimist in me worries that maybe the audience cannot recognize the value because AI slop still can manipulate us very effectively...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Umbran's post in the thread ChatGPT lies then gaslights reporter with fake transcript with Like.
With respect - you have missed something important. The programmatic action of ChatGPT isn't inherently dangerous. The User...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.Predictions are difficult,especially when it comes to the feature. If it is a pendulum, of course it swings back. But is it? I don't...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E Skill feats shouldn't give you abilities that normal people have.Yes, that is kinda a problem with skill feats in general, and it existed with feats 3rd Edition D&D and Pathinder 1, too. Finding...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.I never noticed the nacelle attachment points, but I think the nacelle mounted phaser banks I did notice.
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Where’s The Death Race 2000 Roleplaying Game? Part One with Like.
I can't help but think part of the reason might be because vehicle scenes in most RPGs are pretty boring for a good number of players...
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Cyberpunk 2020 had Protect & Serve which was a book dedicated to running campaigns with the PCs as law enforcement officers. There are...
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Mustrum_Ridcully reacted to Kannik's post in the thread Battletech Public Playtest Thread with Like.
-nodnods- Back in MechWarrior 1, when you fired your TIC (Target Interlocking Circuit -- and you only had one!) rather than fire...
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Mustrum_Ridcully replied to the thread Battletech Public Playtest Thread.Oh god, how much I hate the very idea of ghost heat. It seems there were so many better approaches to do it ,that would probably also...