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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.My own take (and it's not really mine - it's pretty influenced by Robin Laws) is that RPGing pretty quickly expanded to include a whole...
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I think your dungeon example illustrates the distinction I was trying to get at. Yes, players have meaningful choices within the... -
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Well, my personal take is probably odd, but as far as I can tell by what is described as what actually happens at the table, is that a...
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Ppemerton reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's all the more reason why I personally find the argument against minions to be somewhat absurd. In the fiction, they are all ogres...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Early D&D didn't advocate for railroading, though. Here is how I describe the sort of play that Gygax advocates in the "Successful...
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Ppemerton reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with
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Maybe "The Golden Age of TTRPGs" was the name of Ben Riggs's 5e D&D Campaign that ended when WotC broke into his home and replaced all... -
Ppemerton reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A PC cannot 1-shot an Ogre easily. The minion with the DT can be 1-shotted. The point being that the attack needs to do a minimum...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead'.I think there is an element of this, definitely! I'm not sure what would make any candidate age a "Golden Age" for RPGing. If it's the...
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Ppemerton reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with
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Step 1: Declare the existence of a Golden Age. Step 2: Declare the death of the Golden Age to sell your new book. Step 3: Profit. -
Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.To me, "linear adventure" seems like a description of the way a pre-written scenario is presented: as a sequence of "scenes" or "events"...
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Another one is to have things like beliefs/bonds/goals/etc. which can be used by the GM to put the PCs in a situation. Something like...
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Ppemerton reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Wow.
I played in a Freeport-set sandbox game once where the GM told us we could do anything and go anywhere, and there would be something to...
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Ppemerton reacted to JiffyPopTart's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't have to track them on my scrap sheet behind the GM screen. They get hit ..they die. No tracking conditions and any other kind...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.One alternative I've used with some success is to have the player author the inciting incident for their PC. Details here: Repost- first...
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Ppemerton reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Do not agree and you have left a lot of straw lying around to be picked up. Show me how mathematically? How do you know what Damage...