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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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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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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 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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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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Of course, if the narrative movement isn't of interest to you, RPGs become that much more "solved".
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Oh this whole post is worth it just for the Caillois' classification terminology, which I've somehow managed to avoid in all my study of...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.There are a lot of good thoughts in this post. I am intrigued by the idea, if I may rephrase, that "RPGs cannot replicate experiences...