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Retros_x reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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“Remember that mysterious archway you passed through? Yeah, um, you switched to an alternate universe. Mostly the same, but some... -
Retros_x reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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I've had that happen a couple of times when I ran games for people that were fastidious with notes. I take a lot of notes too but I... -
I just finished reading Christopher Buckley's 1994 novel Thank You for Smoking, and had quite a pleasant time doing so. Given my...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.Jeah, definitely there are sometimes the exceptions. I had one player who absorbed my lore and always wanted more - which became a bit...
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Retros_x reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Absolutely this. Too often GMs, or adventure authors, indulge their desire to craft a whole backstory for their world, and expect the...
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Read The Trees by Percival Everett (James, Erasure) and it’s a slow burn, starting with the murder of two men in Money, Mississippi...
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Retros_x replied to the thread Immersion?.Immersion is not something that can be discussed in a session zero IMO. Its a very personal and introspective feeling at least in my...
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I know my immersion immediately went away as soon as I read that.
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Retros_x reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I think that’s the heart of it right there. If I’ve written a whole page worth of lore for something, the actual bit worth communicating...
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When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed...
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@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...
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Retros_x reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back...
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One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I read "In the miso soup" by Ryu Murakami and this book is ... something. Way more gorey than expected, but only in one specific scene...
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Retros_x replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.In my experience, lore only matters for players, if it becomes relevant to their decision making during playing the game. Anything else...