Nytmare's latest activity
-
Nytmare reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with
Like.
Absolutely! This is true in Torchbearer also. I'd say that it not only feels robust, but is robust. -
Nytmare reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
You probably won't be shocked that I'm going to put in a good word for Burning Wheel here: generally it uses binary success/failure on...
-
Nytmare reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
Which is basically the opposite of organic!
-
Nytmare reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
Oh that’s another great point: games with more enumerated social mechanics often take pains to present ways in which varied characters...
-
Nytmare reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
I'm not an actor, and no one whom I play with is a thespian, voice actor or other sort of performer. But social resolution mechanics...
-
Nytmare reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
Yeah, I agree. The games I've played over the last year-ish that have very explicit social mechanics either via a multi-stage resolution...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....In a traditional system, you can replicate gripping and exciting dialogue by mistake. In a system built with the mechanics and...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....If you are able to point to a film with gripping, and exciting dialogue scenes, where several people are involved in an argument or in...
-
Nytmare reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
That is interesting. I see them as very different. Sure, they use the same resolution system, but combat has a ridiculous amount of...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....I'm a huge fan of how Torchbearer (and to a lesser extent the rest of the Burning Wheel family) handles it. You have unified methods...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Keeping Track of Time (In Game).Guess I should also add in that every 2 or 3 cycles of adventure/return-to-town a party goes on triggers a change in seasons. Aside...
-
I've heard mixed things about that store over the years... Except mine were red with a white crayon. Longs Drugs, Anchorage, Alaska...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Your first RPG purchase, in pictures.Yeah, my mother was FULLY swept up in the Satanic Panic through the late 80s, and for as ruthlessly feminist as she was, she had...
-
I wasn't allowed to own anything D&D growing up (Satanic Panic and all that), but was able to cobble together my own game using video...
-
Nytmare replied to the thread Keeping Track of Time (In Game).I do, and depending on the game being played I've always done it differently. In my old D&D campaign, one wall of my game room had a...