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Thomas Shey reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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So, think this highlights different tasks the GM may need to engage in. "Adjudicating" is about determining how the player's declared... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I've certainly seen it play out that way to some extent, but that turns on questions of passive versus active participance tendencies...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Mastery is a loaded word there IMO. Facilitator is probably closer to the actual role (generally speaking). Trying to argue that the GM...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I think you have to get vastly away from conventional RPGs before a lot of people would want to do it, and some not even then. For some...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think 'serving' is a terrible way to characterize RPG play. I think it's more useful to start with the idea that everyone at the table...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.You ought to know by now that solid hypotheticals are something I consider perfectly legitimate for discussion, Micah. I mean...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.Though what translates into "constructive" can sometimes be hard to tease out. I don't do this with setting lore (well, usually, unless...
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Thomas Shey reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I don't think anyone is under an obligation to accept whatever IP holders shovel at them. But I think that endless whinging about new...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Sorry. I don't have a specific case that you'd consider relevant. I can simply imagine designs where it would, because the components...
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Thomas Shey reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I GMed my first session of Mythic Bastionland yesterday: Mythic Bastionland actual play The players knew nothing about the game or the...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.The only problem with that is too many parts of Witchcraft are mechanically a mess. There are far too clearly winners (Mages) and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players?.I'm a bit agnostic about it. But Micah did ask you that question twice, and you kind of stepped around it. If that's what you feel, I...
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Thomas Shey reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Since when has the GM had 200 pages of lore going back 20 years? Is this like The Shining where it's just 'Absolutely No Turtlemen' over...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.So again, everything except the part the actually cared about. As I said--again--your redline and their point the exercise were...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.It was, however, part of the premise to my answer of the original question, and I think with the criteria I gave (no useful extra...