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overgeeked reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with
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Let me tell you about the time we stumbled into the main hall in the Steading of the Hill Giant chief unprepared ... -
overgeeked reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
This made me think of:
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overgeeked reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
Dropping a boulder off a cliff onto an enemy camp while they sleep is technically combat, but one with probably just one big roll.
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overgeeked replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.It's weird how this keep happening to you.
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overgeeked replied to the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark.Right? These read like the referee was running a parody game written by someone who hates Shadowdark rather than someone who actually...
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overgeeked reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
You do you, but you should note that 99% of the people in this thread are saying that Retreater's bad experience is largely due to inept...
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overgeeked reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
The DMs who ran Retreater's games don't seem to have read any play examples in the book. One of them -- the "do every dungeon room in...
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overgeeked replied to the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark.The principles of the OSR as written by Ben Milton, et al are new, sure. The mechanics that lead to those principles are not. All the...
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overgeeked reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Time for one of my favorite games, trying to figure out how exasperated the mods are by what shade of red they're using for their text
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Exactly. “Combat is a fail state” is just a pithy phrase to capture the idea that fights shouldn’t be entered just for the fighting...
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overgeeked reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Oh, and as for the "reasonable chance of success" at rolls to attempt things....what is "reasonable"? 50%. 75%. 90%? Whatever the...
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overgeeked reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Sorry to hear that none of your DMs knew how to make it work. :/ 1. That perfectly cromulent house rule does fix this issue, though...
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Avoidance or trying to get in advantageous situation is exactly that. Its stated by most OSR creators in their blogs and products. Here...
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overgeeked reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Yeah, again, I think that idea has been both exaggerated and misconstrued. Of course combat is a huge part of OSR. It's just that the...
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overgeeked reacted to SpellObjectEnthusiast's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Table Variance is a feature of OSR games. There aren't rules to "protect" players from bad referees - a referee must play fair...