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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Definitely. Its visible in both D&D 4e and 13th Age. Its most visible there because there are clear predecessors to compare them to... -
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RM character creation is certainly its own thing. One time, a player joined our group so made something like a fifth level ranger and... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign?.All fair enough. We wouldn't have automatically found early mortality offputting at that time, since we were still playing RuneQuest...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I'm not going to speak for Micah--we don't share that much in taste, though not nothing--but my feeling is that reducing GM overload...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Well, sometimes the issue with the "unsolveable problem" is that it genuinely is unsolvable, its just the people presenting it haven't...
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Thomas Shey reacted to payn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think an issue with random tables and why they fell out of favor is how little thought was put into their execution. Early games had...
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Thomas Shey reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Making a mental note that @Whizbang Dustyboots is anti-corporate and therefore against the American Way... -
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Unwatch is my friend, but it can only help me when I actually give it a call. It won’t intrude uninvited, which is nice, but does put a...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Sure, there's more to do, and fixing healing is part of it. I like a proportional model myself.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Elvish Lore's post in the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? with Like.
From my original post: If you feel like you hate campaign durations of that length and wouldn't ever do this, good for you and there's...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.That low-calorie plate was almost the standard for Americana restaurants offering something like that for a very long time. I always...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Even without modern approaches to healing you had other elements that worked really, really oddly with the hit point model (falling gets...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.People seem to manage to get by doing that in my 13th Age game, and that's not that far off the beaten D&D path.
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
On the one hand, I’m almost always happy to see people living the tenets of their faith. OTOH, I hate that it’s so rare that it’s...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Well, thats' true of people who are kitbashing a game now, but for genuine designers it still begs the question if you're going to do a...