Recent content by Retros_x

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. Felt a bit like a sudden Tarantino outburst of violence, but with detailed gore description and definitely cruel details. And besides that it is a cynic...

In my experience, lore only matters for players, if it becomes relevant to their decision making during playing the game. Anything else is fluff that rarely becomes of any relevant meaning to the players.

Immersion is a sensory feeling for me. To be immersed in a movie I sit in the cinema, not talking with anybody, just be in the story. An immersive game is for me a video game with detailed graphics and good music and sound. Immersion in TTRPG is unnecessary and not the reason I play RPGs. I...

I think its not a VERSUS. Sometimes you need or want player skill, sometimes character skill. For me personally TTRPG is about making decisions and problem solving. These are the main areas that I don't want to automate or abstract away behind skill checks, because these are the fun of the game...

First of all, I really enjoy reading these posts. Before I become an active member of enworld I was a lot in D&D subreddits, and whenever this topic came, so many comments were just "wtf, why are taking money" "you are ruining the hobby" and whatever other nonsense. I also thought about paid...

Yeah, that explains it, our DM was always quite true to the book.

Thank god! Thats one of the main appeals of Eberron, the lore doesn't grow to an abomination like FR. And it was a design, so a weird criticsm to hold up against one feature that was always there. I think the mechanical updates and small expansion is perfectly fine, especially for that price, I...

Thats interesting because I hated the traps in ToA and many of them did not fall under the three points you make in your post :D. We had multiple character deaths due to traps without tells hidden behind a roll. Maybe our DM naughty word it up I don't know. I only know the adventure from a player...

Love angry rants like that! Yes, this is what I loved so much about the book too. Multiple times I was so sure I know what was about to happen, just to have the rug pulled under me. Its a play with expectations, but not in a bad "GOT season 8" way.

I finished it yesterday evening. I enjoyed the last third a bit less than the rest. I thought the ending was a bit underwhelming, lot of handwaving and in the end I was left with ... a shrug? Rand think its finished, but clearly its not really, but we as a reader are left out of how much danger...

Can you expand on that or maybe describe an example? I do not precisely understand the difference you desribe here between drawing a make based on what makes sense vs what supports gameplay. Because the old school maps you describe they DONT make sense, at least thats how I understand you...

Thats too bad, the journey aspect is so fun to me. Although I am surprised that the first book already introduces a "fast travel". I am always a bit annoyed when these system get introduced in novels, it feels a bit gamey. Although I thought that "the ways" were implemented in a cool way, they...

Proving in a scientific way, yes it is difficult. But I was just responding through the premise of the thread - I think its much more reasonable that back wards time travel is impossible as an explanation for missing time travelers than they explanation they destroyed every timeline where its...

Really interesting snippet and I think I can see hints of these already in the first book. I am right now in the Caemlyn chapters of the first book, and I really hope this "Ta'veren" concept gets explored further, because right now it just seems to be a plot device to explain how all these...

I thought the simple answer is that time travel backwards isn't really possible. Not just in our timeline, but in general.