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I absolutely love these kinds of board games. However none of them hold a candle to TTRPGs when it come to provide the kind of...
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I notice that Stonetop states that the setting book is intended for GM rather than players. It seems that there is going to be fiction...
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It allows me to understand what other people see in things, even if they aren't to my taste.
Yesterday at 5:28 PM
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Right, but mostly we seem to design discussion as a rhetorical proxy for arguing our baseline assumptions should be normative of TTRPGs...
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I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...
Yesterday at 4:57 PM
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Or alternatively, "Using this technique actively works against things I and people like me want out of our gaming experience" without...
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Hardly news to you, but I've been banging on for a decade now that skill challenges are a terrible game. Great narrative pacing...
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Flavor and concept wise, the Binder from 3E's Tome of Magic. I love it when an edition gets experimental in its late stages and the...
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I'd suggest that's a definitional issue; I'd certainly consider succeeding at what my character is trying to do winning, and I'd bet...
Yesterday at 1:24 AM
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I'm doing no such thing. I'm pointing out a consequence of fail forward design, a thing it cannot do, not offering advice on how a game...
Yesterday at 1:04 AM
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Yes, exactly. But that’s why you reference experts, they have access to the evidence to support the claims they’re making. But I’m not...
Yesterday at 12:33 AM
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We're going around in circles and I think I'm not explaining myself well. My whole point is that fail forward design structure can...
Monday at 11:19 PM
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That's precisely the problem though; I want the player to force events to unfold in a desired way. If the game can always continue from...
Monday at 10:23 PM
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You should read (or listen) to Dungeon Crawler Carl
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You know, I think part of my issue might simply be the number of characters. I do a lot better with slice of life when the perspective...
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I'll reconsider it! I'd pushed it off the list for the portal fantasy reasons listed above.
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