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soviet replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?....outside? Through your window? -
soviet reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I'm just spit-balling here, but maybe we could even come up with some labels for these different things. Like maybe the first could be... -
soviet replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Yeah it occurred to me afterwards that I'd basically redescribed story before, story now, and story after, albeit my version of story...
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soviet reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Yeah, I haven't been following all of this rules/no rules discussion, but the idea that we're not rolling the dice, so we're not...
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soviet replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.The Chronicles of Narya. Gandalf, the ass-kicking years.
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soviet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think you're talking about different types of football here...
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soviet reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
There is no central activity of playing a roleplaying game. We don't play "a roleplaying game" we play specific games with specific...
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soviet reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
I thin k that is because D&D (especially 5E 2024) is trying to be too many things at once. It is a tactical turn based combat game, but...
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soviet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
To me it is perfectly clear that what is happing in any RPG play is story creation. This goes for trad games where players merely...
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soviet replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.What's the difference between 'I am a football player running up the pitch while someone else has the ball' and 'I am a D&D player...
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soviet reacted to Hriston's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Right, and, while I don't have any data on this besides my own experience, I think that's probably true for a lot of people who play...
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soviet replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.If I'm playing football and then the ball goes off the pitch, have I stopped playing football? If I'm playing football, but I don't...
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soviet reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
In soviet D&D, rest takes you!
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soviet replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I don't like mayonnaise and I don't like headaches, doesn't mean they are the same thing
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soviet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Yep. Good summary and your last point is probably true too. And when I say RPGs generate a story, it could be via any of these methods...