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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Hmm. I think it is more complicated, because for kids the boundary between play and other activities is less well defined. If an adult... -
The Firebird replied to the thread OSR Anyone playing Aaron A. Reed's Skycrawl (or downcrawl) with an OSR?.That's cool. Does Skycrawl have rules for these retinue characters (i.e., what a "navigator" does and how much they get paid) or is that...
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The Firebird reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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It's hard to say. Sometimes 'too soon' is simply not relevant, or maybe the point. Some half-dozen years ago researchers uncovered a... -
The Firebird replied to the thread OSR Anyone playing Aaron A. Reed's Skycrawl (or downcrawl) with an OSR?.I'm not familiar with it. How does the crew work? It sounds like they're separate from the party?
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The Firebird reacted to Simon The Hunter's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
A couple of peeps have mentioned polar exploration, and just recently we watched a brilliant documentary on Shackleton and how he and...
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Year Zero may work, an implementation similar to Twilight:2000 would have the dangers of rads and rations. You have to explore to do...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
So there is a lot to unpack here. First, I don't think people usually do a lot of roleplay when making a sand castle. The thing I...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Yes, I think that is a missing piece in his work. I'd guess he would place making a sand castle as mimicry if there is an aspect of...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
The essay I remember would have been something like Scry magazine in the late 1990s. I'll see if I can find it, but I don't know if I...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Thanks for this recommendation. I've looked at it several times but never actually run it as written. That sounds like a worthwhile...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Definitely, RPGs are a weak point of his system. Do you mean "Getting Lucky" from Game Developer, November 2006? I wasn't familiar with...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Towards a Functional Taxonomy of Role-Playing Gamers with Like.
I don’t have this concept fully realized. Unlike many of my posts, I didn’t have a ready-made essay in my head because I’d already...
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Someone may have already mentioned this, but I find the Alexandrian's hexcrawl system to be amazing for actually creating a sense of...
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Water is sooooo touchy, so crucial. I know from personal experience that even when traveling in big cities in first world nations...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Of course, if the narrative movement isn't of interest to you, RPGs become that much more "solved".