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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Burning Wheel on the other hand is at a minimum Forge-adjacent or possibly actual Forge. It is not a normal baseline. This is a...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I don't disagree with you about the mechanics, and some of their emergent consequences. But I think I do disagree a bit about how much... -
NNeonchameleon replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I'm going to partially disagree. Terry Pratchett described humanity as Pan Narrans - the storytelling chimp and story is an inevitable...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Yes. I've been saying this a lot - most recently in multiple posts across two threads; but on these boards for 15+ years! Trying to...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
CT is HEAVY on the tables. MegaTraveller only slightly less. Lots of special case rules in the CT skills chapter. (Like, almost all...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".For the record: Daggerheart: rules light D&D meets PbtA. No moves, but success-with-consequences as a possibility on the basic roll...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I only have a very general sense of Daggerheart, know Honey Heist by name and that's it, and have heard of Crash Pandas for the first...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Then possibly you'd care to give your definition? As well as your definition of "story mechanics". Mine considers e.g. most Adventure...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].Not affecting casting doesn't mean it wouldn't matter at all. Arcana and Search are IME two of the most important skills in the game for...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Yes - and the trad games (especially D&D) are the most inorganic of the ones I run, with the scenes pre-scripted to a degree. Meanwhile...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to nevin's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
to be fair even convention games often end up with entirely different types of results based on how DM's style affect well even con...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Again, I don't know what you mean by "story focused mechanic". The games that @Neonchameleon and I were talking about were Burning Wheel...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I'm not being obtuse here. I can think of games with what I'd call "Story mechanics" (Fiasco springs to mind). But what I would think...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".What exactly do you call "story mechanics"? And why do you think the games I've listed have them?
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".No one is saying they don't produce stories. But they produce them far more slowly. Given the amount of GM force involved in trad RPGs...