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Oh I tend to agree, you need a personality/backstory which is compatible with the mechanical character, but the idea that a build has to... -
I would say connections to/in the setting and goals and defined personality things (if not the BIFTs in 5e) would qualify--though the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Umbran's post in the thread TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR with Like.
Burning books is generally what people on the wrong side of history do.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Algorithmancer's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
Totally get where that group is coming from. For some, rules-heavy means predictability and a shared understanding of the game's...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..As I noted before, even a game with some pretty gamist chops--the Hero System--let's you try again. It just requires you to accumulate...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Umbran's post in the thread [Apple TV+] Murderbot Adaptation (No spoilers) with Like.
My wife put one aspect of it in a good way. In the books, your view of all the other characters comes through Murderbot, a sarcastic...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I believe I spent at least two posts acknowledging this problem. Not the cases I'm talking about, What if I don't care at the moment...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think its situational, but a lot of the cases I agree; its not only gamist, its sloppy gamism that could be done other ways. (There...
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Thomas Shey reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally I'm not a fan of no re-tries unless the fiction informs the no-retry. I'd argue the no-retries principle is gamist not sim...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
"I don't like a thing, so I don't want anyone else to experience it, even if they love it." Come on, man.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Tell Me About the Cypher System.The latter can still be both true and undesirable. The fact some people like it (which is clearly the case, there's no lack of Cypher...
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I was much happier hacking the XP rules, so the players got XP because I Did GM Things. The only times I used anything like Intrusion...
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I am just joining a Cypher system game so I am new to the system but it sounds like any time the opponent hits really hard you want to...