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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with
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As I said above, good thing I love Oregon Trail. I do agree though that RPG-style adventure goes well with the traditional kind, and can... -
The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think it is important to stay grounded in the reality of the thing and this post is a really good reset to the discussion. One of the...
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The Firebird reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Just to add a bit, from personal experience with mountains. When you do everything right and things out of your control don't screw you...
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The Firebird reacted to LordBP's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Well, to me, tracking them separately would make the most sense, but I don't mind tracking everything. If I was abstracting it some...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Problems like this are one reason I don't think it's practical to abstract things to "supply". To continue the "Oregon Trail" analogy...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Tempting. But suppose they are traveling along a river with abundant fresh water. Does it make sense to count water weight? Having a...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think it's a highly relevant response to the statement: "I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be...
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The Firebird reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
It very much depends on how the participants define fun. A player with primary (or sole) aesthetics of Fantasy is fulfilled by lots of...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
How close is too close though? Everyone has their own line, and the only ones that should matter to you in your own game (which is what...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be counterproductive to achieve the goal of finding ways to make hardship on...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Also this was my source for water. It says 2 - 12 L, which works out to 4.4 - 26.4 lb. This was mine for food, which gives about 60-80...
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The Firebird reacted to LordBP's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think you would have to have an idea in real life what each would be and then try to abstract it to a game rule. For water. You...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law.My impression is that we're past the peak of the AI hype cycle. I don't see as many people trying to use it everywhere and there is a...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.I agree that is the starting point. My question is--how do we do that mechanically? Are the players tracking lbs of food/water, and...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.For a traditional dungeon crawling system, I feel like the format is basically 'solved' in that there are a set of rules that the...