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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Assuming equal skill on the parts of Laura and Liam, it can go either way… but I tend to lean toward Liam as being more likely to... -
Ppemerton reacted to Hriston's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Where I think my play reports might lack some detail is in combat. Here's an excerpt from a report of a D&D 5E game in which I tried to...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".By "internal consistency", you seem to mean something like "has a uniformity of trope and tone". Not a property of the fiction from the...
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Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yeah idk, the book is widely accepted to have some serious organizational issues which maybe results in people getting a little lost...
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Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
You know how we enforce internal consistency in my hundreds of hours low-prep game? Lots of notes to reference the fiction on, a Miro...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Lol. I knew that was coming. :LOL: I prep for Cthulhu Dark, and Wuthering Heights has that book by the same name... More generally... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I'll accept that the games I mentioned - In A Wicked Age, Wuthering Heights, and Cthulhu Dark - are pretty niche. But I've never read...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".In A Wicked Age; Wuthering Heights' Cthulhu Dark (at least as I've played it). Sorry, I couldn't help myself . . .
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I follow the rules of the game I'm playing. For instance, 4e D&D connects treasure parcels to levels. So when I was GMing 4e D&D, as...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Huh? How did your claim about the comparison of running a session to a lesson-plan like outline suddenly turn into a licence to make fun...
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Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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That’s like, your opinion man that you’re casting as truth. My games with a sketch of potential at most have been far more engaging for... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Speaking just for myself, if my RPGing produces stories that are comparable to B-movies, or to second-tier late-70s Marvel Comics, I'm...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Who gets to say what and when… that’s a rule. So if the conversation that is the game is happening, then rules are being used.
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Ppemerton reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Yeah it occurred to me afterwards that I'd basically redescribed story before, story now, and story after, albeit my version of story...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I get that. My point is that the inventory management aspect, which takes up time and focus at the table, means there is quite a bit of...