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NNeonchameleon reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced? with
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That's not how balance works. There are character builds that benefit from the imbalance of asymmetric ability scores. There are... -
NNeonchameleon reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
You absolutely have a right to your feelings here. What you like, and how you react to people who treated you badly are entirely your...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to VLessa's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Oh, sure, I'm totally for that! But I think there's a difference between crunch with a purpose and what I was talking about. For eg...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to GobHag's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Okay so what are the prayers I can use to decrease spell slots? What are the deeds that would decrease/increase my spell slots as a...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
That can be an aesthetic preference, sure. But if Force Points are not "meta" - even though, in the fiction, no one earns points or...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
That doesn't help, because the people involved in complaints don't see why that would apply to individual powers. They'd probably have...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I don't think you have to go as far as Earthdawn. Per the 4e D&D PHB (p 54): Encounter powers produce more powerful, more dramatic...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I mean, in a fantasy setting, can’t you just justify any “metagame” currency as being a blessing of the gods diegetically, and thus now...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.If Force Points aren't meta because The Force is a thing in the universe then Fate Points aren't meta in a whole lot of settings because...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Could have been" is a hypothetical, not in the actual text. Force points stand in solid contrast with, say, Vampire: the...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
No, I'm telling you that there is a calm and useful definition of metacurrency that you are completely ignoring in favour of, um, I...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
But it doesn't work on points per day, does it? That actual mechanic isn't tied to a single thing in the source material outside of its...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to billd91's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Perhaps, but it's not like Luke deliberately accessing the Force when he blew up the first Death Star. It's not something Han invokes...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Does Obi-Wan ever say, "Use your Force Points, Luke" ? Force points don't exist in the setting itself. Indeed, the Force is explicitly...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Key word "Little". Not "huge sim setting". Computers (certainly pre-Chat GPT) can not do the tighter conversational games adapting to PC...