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Ppemerton reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands with
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FYI, in classic 1e Greyhawk humanoids like Orcs fit right in walking around in the Free City of Greyhawk. From the 1e World of Greyhawk... -
Ppemerton reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands with Like.
People have attributed Greyhawk as the "grim and gritty, sword and sorcery setting" despite the fact that it's really just kinda the...
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Ppemerton reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
It's the most widely played, and most widely disliked by firsthand knowledge, of the supposedly universal engines. It's also the most...
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Ppemerton reacted to Jefe Bergenstein's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest with
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How the hell does WOTC still not understand what amount of damage is significant? They keep acting like single digit damage matters... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".I'm not that hard to enlighten! But I am wondering what RPGs you have in mind. My inference is that you're talking about games that are...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
Who’s flexing?
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets?.Luckily no one has ever advanced mocking criticism of the two RPGs I've spent more consecutive years playing than any others -...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Like.
Honesty, GURPS is a pretty good litmus test for me. If a game feels like GURPS, chances are I’m not going to like it much.
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Ppemerton reacted to soviet's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Haha.
And nor would you fill threads with endlessly repeated statements of that dislike.
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with
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I quite enjoy disagreeing disrespectfully. We need to respect other posters, not the games they may or may not like. For example, I... -
Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with Haha.
No one is going to answer those questions, my friend. Why would they? It looks like you are trying to pick a fight that has nothing to...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".I don't think anyone would regard HERO or Rolemaster as light or simple systems. But both leave scene-framing, transition from...
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Ppemerton reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Do you have a "litmus test" setting for generic rule sets? with
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People are allowed to dislike things and explain why. You do it all the time... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".What are these "light and simple systems" that encourage "playing the GM"? Or that are as close to just pass/fail as possible? The...
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Ppemerton reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Reincarnate is and has always been, weird. with Like.
I was looking something up in the B/X expert book and saw this sixth-level magic user spell: