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NNeonchameleon reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with
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I find it interesting that many of the post-5E games have embraced at least some of the 4Eisms that 5E abandoned. Both Daggerheart and... -
NNeonchameleon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
I would call that an exaggeration....but they really are much, much better than their detractors claimed them to be, and it is a crying...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
I have studied college-junior level math and gotten A or B grades. I have tutored math for people of all ages, professionally, for...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
I find the enormous problem is that "works with a herd of cats" means teamwork is functionally irrelevant--every group can succeed...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to MostlyHarmless42's post in the thread D&D General Hope and Fear In D&D with
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Look. I'll say it. I just want 3 things from my tabletop game: 1) The death of initiative or players who actually pay f%%%ing attention... -
NAs I stated upthread, I prefer the opportunity-complication axis to be independent of the fail-success axis. It is more interesting that...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place.It could apply to physical and magical damage if we discarded hit points and just had a single hurt condition, possibly? But even then...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with Like.
There's no accounting for the particular peeves of a designer. Think about all those kinds of Pole Arms and yet there was just one "mace."
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A further complication: a lot of RPG rulebooks don't really spell all of this out in detail. They leave it as an exercise for the...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place.Because generalised poison is a ridiculous condition. Hemlock is very different from cyanide is very different from curare is very...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
4E skill challenges were meant to be the one system that ruled them all.
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Kurotowa's post in the thread D&D General The 3.5 Binder was a really cool class with Like.
You know the joke about old eras of gaming books that were more for reading than for playing? I can't help but feel that the 3e Binder...
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NOn Wednesday, I ran a first session of my new monthly Daggerheart campaign. On Thursday I ran like the 30th session of my ongoing D&D...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Story vs. Gameplay.Nope. The ruleset gives something that will happen. In the case of My Life With Master the story is that the Master (played by the GM)...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Worlds of Design: Story vs. Gameplay.My Life With Master would be a counter-example. It's rare and only a few games do it (Masks springs to mind) but it happens.