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Tthefutilist reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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Tthefutilist replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.The buy in to Blades is that you’re creating characters that can be traumatised by the events of the game in the way the system says. So...
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Tthefutilist reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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So about surprises and playing against your best interests. A while ago in our Blades game our characters were negotiating with an... -
Tthefutilist reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's Talk About Core Game Mechanics with
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I think the notion that the dice represent unspecified elements of the fiction - which I've heard a bit, certainly not just from @Thomas... -
Tthefutilist reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with Like.
Note: This response is going to be a lot of freeform rambling, as I have a lot of thoughts on the subject, but not enough time to edit...
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Tthefutilist reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I'm not a very big fan of this. It's like the GM playing the game with themself.
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Tthefutilist reacted to saviirkad's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I think, ultimately the flaw to my eyes in looking too much for a score to define the character in this way, whether the Int score or...
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Tthefutilist replied to the thread Contrasting combat system outcomes.I'll respond to other stuff later but I wanted to mark this out. Ansillia having to choose between her life/being captured and the...
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TA situation a little bit like this happened in my Torchbearer 2e game last Sunday: 3 PCs confronting a NPC necromancer, with 8 skeletal...
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Tthefutilist replied to the thread Contrasting combat system outcomes.I was going to run through the example with Apocalypse World but after two days of frustration I decided I’m done with the system. I...
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Tthefutilist replied to the thread Contrasting combat system outcomes.This might be dependent upon the order of narration, what the group understands the narration to be doing and the scope of the...
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Tthefutilist reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread Contrasting combat system outcomes with Like.
In terms of analysis in 4e I think level isn't critically necessary to nail down. The framing of scenes (encounters or maybe technically...
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Tthefutilist reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Every edition of every Games Workshop game ever.
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Tthefutilist reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Like how you think that iterations of game that aren't compatible aren't the same game. Our hobby is littered with game iterations that...
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Tthefutilist replied to the thread Contrasting combat system outcomes.OTHER KIND DICE – BASIC CARDS This was done using the good working outcome set found here...