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Thondor reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with
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For me, Jason Bulmahn (Paizo) sums up my feelings with: Pretty much how I feel about all my hobbies. If you're as passionate about... -
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Champions and similar games presented a certain playstyle that has been embraced and enjoyed by many gamers. Of course, everyone isn't...
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Thondor replied to the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?.Seems pretty similar yeah. The Revised books themselves suggest using the existing ACKS adventures from the prior edition several times...
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Thondor replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.Designer of Simple Superheroes #0 here. I'm currently running sessions of the in-development variant Supervillains Unleashed. As many...
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There is no causality in fiction. There is only the fiction of causality, which - of course - can be anything the author chooses which...
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I think that skill challenges were a noble failure. Plenty of games on the storygame side have some means of chaining together...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.As you describe what you are doing, you are primarily using Event List (or Scenario). That's how I define it anyway in this post...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Because that's what narrativist mechanics do. They let player's directly manipulate the story in a way that only the GM normally can...
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I mentioned Classic Traveller trading play upthread, but didn't put it in the context of GM-less play. Which is something the rules...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Here’s the types I think we’ve covered so far: Map-and-key Draw a map, fill it with content. Where the players go, there is where the...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.I think they did. Implicitly if not explicitly in the OP. Alright so it seems like the "best interests" that Permerton is talking...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.In a discussions like this that essentially asks the question "what are some uncommon / lesser known ways of doing X?" What exactly is...
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But, it isn't necessarily specifically related to a map. The players need to succeed at 6 actions that would plausibly aid them in...
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D&D should definitely be included, but not given special weight because more people play it. Vastly more people play Call of Duty than...
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Thondor replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Interesting topic Permerton. As someone who runs a lot of Superhero games, and never includes maps in my prep or scenario design, this...