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Ppemerton reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I'm not terribly familiar with AD&D, so, yeah, sure! Quite often good ideas are old, and then get replaced by bad ideas, and return back... -
Ppemerton reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
He was talking about it from the position of designing a game and what he thought was important during that process, so games before...
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Ppemerton reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
So I view success with consequences as very distinct from degrees of success and failure in games like RuneQuest. Sure, in both there is...
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Ppemerton reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I don't think D&D or Traveller were aimless at all. I do think most 90s era design was. L5R (before 5th edition), Shadowrun, Vampire... -
Ppemerton reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The main comment was in the context of advocating for designing to address specific questions rather than, say, cobbling together...
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Ppemerton reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Creating a fun game" is creating aimlessly, I think. That's not a meaningful goal. And there are a lot of examples of individual...
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Ppemerton reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...
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Ppemerton reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...
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PYou keep talking to me about meta and I've never once mentioned the word. Hit points literally exist in the setting? They are...
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Ppemerton reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
Ahhh... The "what is a hit point?" argument. And given that hit points measure how beaten up you can get without getting injured or...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I think of "modern" more as pertaining to a RPG's overall design, rather than its mechanics. To me, a game feels "modern" if (i) it is...
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Ppemerton reacted to Composer99's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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Which is why no one in arts or history uses the term to define distinctive periods in time that - oh, wait, yes they do. All the time. -
Ppemerton reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
When I think about intentional design I think about designers having a clear vision of what they want the game to be about, not just...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think it depends on the game. Many of the elements of D&D are, to this day, simply relics of wargaming that have been repurposed for...
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Ppemerton reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I should have said modern games are more likely to be designed with intention. And of course, there were older brilliant games that were...