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My issue with that is that whenever heck in a handbasket isn't on the table the players always auto-succeed and get what they want. I...
Jun 13, 2025
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What about Option C, which is to have them roll because if they fail they don't get what they want (in this case, that'd be entry to the...
Jun 13, 2025
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In the abstract, avoiding having "nothing happen" is a good thing because it has the decided benefit of helping prevent play bogging...
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It was. Frustration can, however, sometimes also be and-or lead to good fun.
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Sure, this is fine (though personally I'd include a small % chance the Ogre is at neither location but is in transit between the two or...
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The best way I can put this is that having some player-side visible prep - setting maps, history, cosmology, maybe brief notes about a...
Jun 13, 2025
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Huh. I never tell them how long they have unless there's an in-fiction way of their knowing it, and wouldn't consider this nearly...
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I think it is important to understand why a result "feeling unrelated to" the check is a really bad thing in a certain style of play...
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Too bad, I just moved from the area, or I would be there.
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A buddy of mine and another store owner are putting on a full game convention in Burbank, California over Father's Day weekend. I'm...
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To your first point, what @FrogReaver said. To the one I've quoted -- likewise, my purpose is not to draw a circle around the concept of...
Jun 13, 2025
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The purpose of calling it unconnected is not to make a statement about the legality of the move by the rules of whatever narrativist...
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This. As a backer of the original campaign, Goodman bailed me out not JG. JG has been doing it's level best to make it's products...
Jun 13, 2025
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I disagree in that it's not Bledsaw gaining good will. He's not paying the debt, Goodman is. If anyone would gain gratitude it would be...
Jun 13, 2025
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Well, because people keep posting about it.
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