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Thomas Shey reacted to payn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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Thats really the center of the issue. Folks are coloring their definitions with their preferences. "Aimless", for example, might be how... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I don't disagree that's a pretty semantically loaded term when used too broadly; I do, however, think in at least some cases its not...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.While I don't really disagree with your point, I think even at that point there were some differences in how they presented the role of...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Well, that's a different set of problems; you see it often with game systems that are D&D 5e based where you ask if there's a real...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread The official EN World puppy/doggo thread.Our old girl Belle had that down to a fine art, and what's worse, before she left it, she taught it to Max the dog who came in as a...
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Thomas Shey reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
I normally agree with you @Maxperson...but I'm on the fence about this one. Or I don't understand it well enough yet. I know in my case...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I don't disagree in principal, but I maintain its really, really easy for a fair bit of self-deception to creep in even on a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I agree they have a worldview--as you say, its why you can run the same campaign with GURPS and Hero and get a pretty different play...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.There are two problems with that: 1. He may have pushed the dungeon pretty hard, but there was also a heavy focus in parts about...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.You start to have serious questions about the purposefulness of design when you see a bunch of independent subsystems for different...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.There are plenty that have degrees of success or failure. Eclipse Phase has both. While they often have combat applications, its...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.How do you view generic systems in this context? Or, as @Campbell referenced upthread, games that have, from lack of a better term, a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.While I get the distinction you're making, I'm not sold you can do a proper degree of success without at least addressing what you were...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I don't think D&D or Traveller were aimless at all. I do think most 90s era design was. L5R (before 5th edition), Shadowrun, Vampire...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I don't know what to tell you man. I'm not exactly an enemy of generic systems (I spent probably half my gaming career running the Hero...