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Ppemerton reacted to Truename's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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I leaned hard into a player-driven approach for my last campaign. (5e 2014.) It worked okay, but not nearly as well as I hoped, and my... -
Ppemerton reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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If one player is a problem it's probably that player. If the majority of players or the group is the problem then the DM should look in... -
Ppemerton reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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And this is one of the reasons I consider Simulationist/exploration game design to basically never lead to great results. If instead of... -
Ppemerton reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Love.
I consider inspiration to be diagetic, especially as I connect it directly to PC traits and goals, so Charactets feel inspired by their...
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Ppemerton reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Haha.
Then why are you hitting 'Reply' to my post and talking to me about it when Reynard was the one asking for people's experiences? If you...
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Ppemerton reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Inspiration, Advantage, Bonus XP As to Why - It incentivises players to proactively pursue goals
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Ppemerton reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I run player driven campaigns pretty much exclusively. There can be GM driven segments if the players actively pursue such things, but...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
So like this, or something like it? Your disagreement in inevitable, but refutation is neither what you've accomplished or even begun...
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Ppemerton reacted to mamba's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Haha.
I mean, you are disagreeing with it, refuting feels a bit strong
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Ppemerton reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
I guess, but this is, IMO, a backward way to look at it. We have on the one hand why people buy RPG books, and on the other what they...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
If it's an RPG product it's almost by definition supposed to be read and also used. I'm not hating on books that are designed to also...
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Ppemerton reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What Systems Could Use More Attention? with Love.
My list. Any game that isn't a version of D&D or one of it's 10,000 derivatives.
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Ppemerton reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
You know what made it "click" for me? I went back to D&D and failed rolls resulted in nothing happening. I went back to running WoD...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.The idea that GMing principles for a RPG are "training wheels" or for "beginner GMs" is one of the more bizarre, yet recurrent, ideas...