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RRenleyRenfield replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Ehhh, I dunno.... Dread alone proves most all of this wrong. It has no limitations based on beats or structure, and his highly able...
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RRenleyRenfield replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Our group plays a WIDE variety of games. So for us Plot, Story, and Play to Find Out are not all talking about the same potato, but...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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The thing about “Be a Fan of the Player Characters” that always seems to get glossed over in these discussions is that a) every game... -
RRenleyRenfield reacted to Morrus's post in the thread 1 Shot Campaigns, and throw away characters. with Like.
I play quite a lot of one shots and short campaigns. It lets me play lots of different games. Like watching a movie instead of signing...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Yeah. To your point, I think just broadly tarring PbtA games and Storypath (the system used in all the recent Onyx Path games) as...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Lots of games get called narrative games for a variety of reasons. The only real unifying principle is that they structured differently...
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RRenleyRenfield replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Well, in some ways its not. If you see them as similar or same, then I don't have much more to add. My point was to merely debunk how...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
In fairness, though, back in the dark ages it probably took each of us a few years to accept and internalize the playstyles we use now...
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RRenleyRenfield replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I was about to point this out, but you beat me to it... ;) Overall though, this does feel like your gut reaction is similar to where I...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
And mine is that different games are different. MCing Apocalypse World is very different from GMing a PF2E Adventure Path is very...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to soviet's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with
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Many people tell me that Other Worlds is the best RPG to play when you're not playing D&D, also the designer is apparently very handsome... -
RRenleyRenfield reacted to A_Carrington's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
D&D can't do anything I'm interested in and has a lot of bafflingly bad design decisions, to the point of being almost offensively...
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RRenleyRenfield replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.This is not how milestones work in our game at all as stated by @Campbell (I forget how much we may have changed from Marvel cortex...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I don’t think that the approach being advocated for is one where PCs cannot change their motivations or adopt new ones based on what...
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RRenleyRenfield reacted to Campbell's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
One of the things we at our table to coordinate more player driven play is establishing one personal milestone/goal per player character...