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VVLessa reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I have not read the entire thread, so this might have come up before - but the main thing I consider modern is attempt to reduce... -
VVLessa reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
When I think about intentional design I think about designers having a clear vision of what they want the game to be about, not just...
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VVLessa reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think it depends on the game. Many of the elements of D&D are, to this day, simply relics of wargaming that have been repurposed for...
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VVLessa reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I should have said modern games are more likely to be designed with intention. And of course, there were older brilliant games that were...
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VVLessa reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm very much getting the impression that "modern" actually means, "recent games that emphasise mechanics that can trace a clear lineage...
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VVLessa reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
What I think of as Modern are mechanics that are refined and put up front in ways they never were before, or used to a higher degree...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Re read the first sentence. I'm not dismissing games like My Life With Master, Fate, or Unisystem as unimportant. I'm saying that that...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I actually do consider there to have been an approximate time boundary when what I'd call modern RPG design coalesced from a collection...
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VVLessa reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
LoL. The term "neotrad" first came out of Free League Publishing, which they used to describe their Mutant Year Zero game.
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VVLessa reacted to dbm's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think this is really hard to nail down, however on reflection I think modern games are more intentional in design and leverage better...
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VVLessa reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I tend to agree that examples of most types of game mechanics can be found in earlier games that wouldn’t be called modern. For me, I...
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VVLessa reacted to Voidmoji's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A subset of narrativism that I find to be particularly modern is more hardcoded genre emulation. Mutants & Masterminds generally...
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VVLessa reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Im not sure i use the term " modern " for mechanics. When I think about newer RPGs I sometimes associate newish to a shift to story...
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VVLessa reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This came up in another thread and I wanted to spin it off for its own discussion. When talking about TTRPG mechanics and how the...
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VVLessa reacted to TheAlkaizer's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Modern is a definition that has to evolve. What we think of modern now is different than what we thought as modern. I know that...