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payn replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily. -
payn reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with
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Mearls helped design 5e and he crunches the numbers. Interesting that Johnathan Tweet chime in about timing with rests changes the... -
payn reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? with Like.
They aren't really the same question. "60 sessions" requires a game to probably be functional over extended play, but it still may not...
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payn replied to the thread D&D General Oh Please give me some Happy Backgrounds!!.I had a girlfriend with BPD. Those were interesting times.
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payn reacted to billd91's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Is that really so different for a PBtA game? I know PBtA games usually exhort a GM to follow certain principles, but more traditional...
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payn reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Play to find out" in the way Vincent laid out obviously does not consider how a D&D GM prepares because it's not meant to describe D&D...
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payn reacted to Voadam's post in the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? with Like.
60 means it lasts a little more than a full year if you game weekly. If its D&D and you advance a level every 4 games that would be...
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payn replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.One of the pitfalls of these discussions is the idea a simulation is total reality with no game, and that a game is all game with no...
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payn replied to the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign?.Opened ended includes 6 sessions as well as 60. I think the idea was that the session would go longer than average which is probably...
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payn reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
So what you're saying is ... EnWorld is using illusionism to rob commenters of agency. Despite what we think threads are about, all...
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payn reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Aw man, is that thread also going to turn into another "OMG Railroads" thread? How many do we need?
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payn reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The difference may also be the angle which Gygax and Spencer (or whoever wrote that part of DH) is coming from. Gygax is coming against...
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payn replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Its an admitted broad generalization so not prone to being true across all time and games. This blurb itself is just one example from...
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payn reacted to Gorgon Zee's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
In an early post, I suggested that, for me, "modern mechanics" pretty much menat "mechanics not meant to simulate a reality". It is...
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payn reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Hmmm. . . or simply charge Snarf by the word for posting. . .