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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread There's A New Edition Of The Cypher System Coming with
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Good to interact with you again, pemerton! I completely agree that Gygax and Pulsipher are describing the same playing style. There is...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Honestly, your patronizing tone is tiresome. You seem to think you are the only one who knows how the game is meant to be played, and...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".The one thing about old school games that is true of all tables is that everyone's table will be different than everyone else's.
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Multiple play styles co-existed, and were perceived to co-exist, in the 70s and 80s. In Part I of his series "D&D Campaigns" published...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
I think the issue is folks often fall into a "everybody played this way" and they didnt. The skill players I knew, never used published...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".Basically, the 'player skill' focused OSR mentality (as popularized by Matt Finch's Primer written in 2008) is a fairly recent...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Above and beyond anything else in the thread, this is a lesson I wholeheartedly embrace and wish more GMs would heed. Doesn't matter...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set with Like.
That you can make sweeping statements about literature and cinema doesn't mean you should, or that those sweeping statements actually...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to GreyLord's post in the thread D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set with Like.
If we take your opinion as truth, no...you did not. YOU have to actually be playing an RPG called D&D to be a DM. As per your...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
I 100% agree with most of what you're saying in this thread about this style of play. The bolded above is the part I'll disagree with...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
I gotta push back on this a bit. Obvious is good when it comes to challenging the players in this sort of context. Unless the players...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to SteveC's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
I'd say that is very much your personal opinion. Neither of these games talks about themselves in this way and my experience running and...
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast replied to the thread D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set.Time is a flat circle.
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SSpellObjectEnthusiast reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set with
Sad.
4e was not a role playing game though. At least advertise what it is; "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining".