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NNeonchameleon reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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Absolutely this. Too often GMs, or adventure authors, indulge their desire to craft a whole backstory for their world, and expect the... -
NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
This is a bit of an aside, One of the coolest PBTA “knowledge” moves is from Freebooters on the Frontier: “Establish When you...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I don’t know if this is what you experienced but what I saw back in the 90s was players could care less about Forgotten Realms lore that...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I came into this thread expecting more conversation about making a setting that matters to the people playing the game. And so that's...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
If they're in a game with dozens of class and race options, then they're most likely there for people who want dozens of class and race...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to payn's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
You can say the same for every species in every setting in every genre. 🤷♂️ To you, is pretty key. You seem to ignore quite a bit of...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Yeah, I’m not that much of a role player to concern myself with whether I can get into the head of a non-human character, and I’m not...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to GobHag's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
The issue is that I--the circus troupe character player--don't see this as a problem at all.
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NNeonchameleon reacted to GobHag's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Aesthetics matter yes(And of course mechanical options).
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NNeonchameleon reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Lore matters to players when it matters to their characters. Lore matters to the characters when it has an immediate and direct impact...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Last time we talked about this ("how do you get your players to care about your setting" was the thread I think), I said that having...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to TheSword's post in the thread First foray into paid DMing - 16 session in. with Like.
Hey. So as some will know back in August I took my first steps into paid DMing. It wasn’t something I did lightly but I’ve been DMing...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.Then you're reading the wrong fantasy. The Discworld, Earthsea, and the Curse of Chalion series all say hi.
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
You're not really "tracking" that per se in that it's not ongoing. It becomes part of the action resolution, in the same way as...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to AdmundfortGeographer's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
having played about 7 sessions of Draw Steel I think I can offer a bit of devil’s advocate to moving minis just being new positions on a...