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NNeonchameleon reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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I've been running player driven games for more than 30 years. My games always have consistent narrative momentum that makes sense. They... -
NNeonchameleon reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Just FYI, I ran a game of BitD that went longer than 50 sessions. The game does have elements in there that support it. You generally...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
FITD games tend to be compact and focused yeah. My Stonetop game is at 62 sessions of player-driven play, and it’s a PBTA (although...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Vampire and Call of Cthulhu are textbook trad games (and with 8 stats and 50ish skills CoC isn't even in the neighbourhood of rules...
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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.
This made a lot of sense to me! I can't really credit that the way players debate and discuss among one another and work out their...
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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.
By "internal consistency", you seem to mean something like "has a uniformity of trope and tone". Not a property of the fiction from the...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".My question here is why do you consider consistency the biggest virtue rather than at the very least the Scylla to the Charybdis of...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Oh, well, that's not good. If there's one thing I know about common sense is that it's not very common. If fact, as far as I can tell...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".This brought to mind that a whole lot of fights in D&D are "second unit" fights - the sort of fight scene is handed over to the second...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yeah, running Blades in the Dark a few times taught me that the way it structures a city-by-districts with a handful of points of...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
You know how we enforce internal consistency in my hundreds of hours low-prep game? Lots of notes to reference the fiction on, a Miro...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Assuming equal skill on the parts of Laura and Liam, it can go either way… but I tend to lean toward Liam as being more likely to...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".In my experience if the GM has done "a boatload of prep" that tends to move it outside the realms of a collaborative table and into the...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Are we assuming that the boatload of prep is specifically relevant to play? Lots of prep isn't really. There's also the question of...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
That’s like, your opinion man that you’re casting as truth. My games with a sketch of potential at most have been far more engaging for...