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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative.It's perhaps worth noting that the narrative aspects don't have to be huge, they might just be somewhat different spins on basically the... -
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Every check has one of four outcomes. Success with Hope - Player gets a Hope Resource, succeeds check with a narrative bonus of some... -
Ruin Explorer reacted to Reynard's post in the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart with Like.
I hate scouring books for information. When new editions are 2 or 3 times the page count of the previous edition, I assume it is mostly...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart with Like.
My main issue with WEG is simply that it is massively out of date in regards to SW lore. I like the new material for the most part and...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative.Oh yeah for absolute 100% sure. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you want to! That's part of what I like about...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative with Like.
Also, it's entirely possible to be capable of handling more narrative control in an RPG without wanting to do so or enjoying it.
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2.I think it does apply, personally. Like a lot of droids, he's in every way an equal to a human in terms of sentience/sapience/free will...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart.You know, I was thinking about that too, I should have mentioned it. I do wonder - I suspect it might have at least a bit higher...
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I'm super curious if Sanderson's Cosmere rpg will be a mostly unplayed, merch-only purchase. I suspect it will be. But if it gets more...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG?.Yeah and I always find it pretty funny that 5E does that given that like, 2nd edition realized that was a problem and so started Dark...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Reynard's post in the thread How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG? with Like.
I care less about fragility than I do 5E not letting character generation be complete until 3rd level. That has always felt like a weird...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Reynard's post in the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart with Like.
My favorite way to play Star Wars is with Savage Worlds. It just works, like right out of the book with almost no effort. The more Jedi...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG?.The only thing I disagree with here is the bolded bit, I violently dislike that in every RPG where it's true (which does include 3E and...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Reynard's post in the thread How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG? with Like.
As an example of the kind of thing I discovered I did not need to houserule after a number of sessions, that many folks houserule off...
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Gotcha. The GM Principles, GM Best Practices, Pitfalls to Avoid, hard and soft moves, GM Moves, Countdowns, and Thinking in Beats are...