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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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To the bolded: those are mechanics IMO, only at a top level rather than a specific rules level. -
The Firebird reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Here Are 2026's Most Anticipated TTRPGs... As Voted By You! with
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The Firebird replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.What are the categories you're saying can't be distinguished between? As I read you, it sounds like you have one called "trad" and one...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
What I mean is that, regardless of how they do it, mechanics that all shift authorial control from the GM to the players to some degree...
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The Firebird reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Oh, yeah, if you mean specific mechanics then sure, there's lots of room for incompatible. This seems to mostly be about how certain...
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The Firebird replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I think there is a lack of specificity to the discussion that is making it hard to be precise. When I say 'unbridgeable', I mean there...
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The Firebird reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The problem is, this excludeds chocolate-and-peanut-butter people like myself. I'm very much a pretty a trad player and GM, but at the...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
What type of definition are you trying to make? I don't see anything wrong with looking at how important mechanics designed to steer the...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm not sure how much the similarities matter if the differences matter to an individual more. Which is more "fundamental" is irrelevant...
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The Firebird replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I guess these are probing the same thing--if there is a game that is midway between two endmembers, then those endmembers are the same...
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The Firebird replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I can't see the post you are responding to so apologies if I'm missing something. I've been increasingly feeling over the past year or...
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The Firebird reacted to Voadam's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with Like.
Broncosaurus Rex, Deadlands, Firefly, romanticizing a fantasy Confederacy was a late 90s/early 2000s thing, unfortunately. You can even...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with Like.
I have played and run DCC, and for me the fun parts are the weird visuals and creatures, the dangerous magic system, and yes the high...
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The Firebird reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with Like.
The first time I played Shadowdark, the torch going out outside of combat was still terrifying and thrilling. In the middle of combat...
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The Batmen didn't all look like the comic-book Batman. All the James Bonds look different. Pretty much everybody in the Marvel films. If...