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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.I'm glad you made this thread, because I've been working on a OSR system that is exactly this. It's been on my mind for a while. I don't... -
The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with
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I am more interested in the mechanics of how to do such a thing well at the table so that it is engaging and dramatic and tense. -
The Firebird reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
The Avalon Hill board game Outdoor Survival which OD&D used for its wilderness map is entirely focused on this. Navigating overland...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think we could just avoid discussing colonialism in this thread and we would be fine.
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The Firebird reacted to Alas's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Which presents kind of an ethical challenge, for me, as far as any proposed game's content and framing. I definitely want my explorers...
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The Firebird reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I did a couple based on the journeys of Al-Musadi and Ibn Battuta and the like, and they are largely a set of terrain/weather based...
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The Firebird reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I tend to think of conquistadores in the New World as perhaps the closest to D&D style adventurers we've come to in real life. Just what...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
A little simulation could help with that. I know I feel more immersed when logistics matter in my games.
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The Firebird reacted to payn's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think its triggering a knee jerk reaction to old school survival sim. Where every morsel of food and drop of water needs to be...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
That's my goal nearly all the time. I want exploration and discovery, with a healthy dollop of diplomacy and politics, and the...
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The Firebird reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Could do worse then read up on the US based Lewis and Clark expedition then find a game system that best models that adventure. GURPS...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I am not so much interested in the combat as war aspect. I am more interested in making the threat of disease or starvation actually...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I am currently in the middle of The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Goodreads link), a nonfiction story about early 20th century...
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The Firebird reacted to Zaukrie's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO with Like.
I just hope when it comes out, we can have actual conversations about what it is, not why it isn't exactly like the old version (with...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO with
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WotC: Here's Adventurlandia! Our fist officical setting in decades! Full of the awesomesauce you crave! "Fans": Boo! Where is...