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Ruin Explorer reacted to Argyle King's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with
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I think it matters where the complexity is at. Sometimes, my issue with a game is neither that it's too complex nor that it's not... -
Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM.Not all dungeon crawlers are alike, though - this one has a lot of NSR-specific conceits. Like, if you baseline say dungeon crawler to...
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Dungeon crawlers have existed throughout the whole life of the hobby. OSR dungeon exploration is one particular flavor of that, but it...
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Mostly because neither of those games plays fast enough, and don't have a loot system that would emulate Diablo. It would be a hard...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to TerraDave's post in the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM with Like.
From the post, it seems like they have done that "shoving". Its full of NSR/OSR references. (From you next post) its seems to totally...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to TerraDave's post in the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM with Like.
I was thinking its very NSR. Perhaps confirming that is very much a thing now. Its also entering a pretty crowded space. But if the...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM.That would totally work, and indeed there are dungeon crawling videogames which have some similar mechanics, but they explicitly called...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Not a Decepticon's post in the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM with Like.
I think a perfect way to midigate that issue would be to adapt the Victories from Draw Steel - the more challenges you overcome, the...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.I definitely think subsystems for very specific situations, ones which can produce interesting and story/setting-relevant results are a...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
I voted an '8' but a lot of people would probably consider my tastes closer to a '9'. The thing is that I like a very simple and clean...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Professor Murder's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
I put 5 and most of that comes from my typical role as a GM. DnD 5e is right now the max lvl of difficulty for a system I would want to...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.For me, complexity isn't inherently a problem or good thing, it's whether that complexity is justified by creating interesting and...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Umbran's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
For Poll purposes, I chose 6, but that's more like the place beyond which the complexity really needs some justification, or it starts...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Professor Murder's post in the thread Modiphius 2d20 System Opinions? with Like.
I attempted a Klingon ST game and it didn't go well. My table and I just bounced off the systems very hard. With more research by all...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Modiphius 2d20 System Opinions?.That's a very strange account of DH that makes it sound like something pretty weird was going on, where people only got anything done by...