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Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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Reflecting after posting in the Draw Steel! thread on this, I think that in a perfect scenario where all my players were masters of... -
Ppemerton reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I don't know which games have metacurrencies based on player birthdays. If 'calling it something that exists in the gameworld' is all...
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Ppemerton reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Sure, but the point of a relatively lightweight and robust resolution system is to just get to the resolution, and not worry too much...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Okiedoke. You can have your idiosyncratic interpretation. But don't pretend it's anything but that. There are standard and usual ways to...
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Well, we accept that physical exhaustion is a thing, and that people can't maintain peak performance and do the exact same thing over... -
Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
See, but that's not how we decide a mechanic is meta or not. Obviously the name helps it seem less meta, and that's actually quite...
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Ppemerton reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
But pretty much all metacurrencies loosely represent something that exists in the setting, the issue is just in how they represent them...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
But it doesn't work on points per day, does it? That actual mechanic isn't tied to a single thing in the source material outside of its...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.At least I've now learned that there's nothing "meta" about 4e D&D martial encounter and daily powers. After all, they reference...
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Sigh. Ok, sure. Just because a mechanic directly indexes class mechanics and per day usage and also has no direct or useful connection... -
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But it doesn't represent an explicit action that could be taken (and be aware of being taken) by the character, which from my...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The fact that you can spin a diegetic reason for it doesn't mean it's not meta. The force doesn't work in points and cinema jedi aren't...
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Ppemerton reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Does Obi-Wan ever say, "Use your Force Points, Luke" ? Force points don't exist in the setting itself. Indeed, the Force is explicitly...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
You saying I don't know doesn't actually, you know, change whether something is meta currency or not.
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A group I'm currently playing with, awesome folks, were positively shocked after a year when relative ages came up and they realized I...