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VVLessa reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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He was talking about it from the position of designing a game and what he thought was important during that process, so games before... -
VVLessa reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
So I view success with consequences as very distinct from degrees of success and failure in games like RuneQuest. Sure, in both there is...
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VVLessa 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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VVLessa reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
But that's not a specific intention. That describes every halfway complete game ever. The question is what kind of experience it was...
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VVLessa reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Creating a fun game" is creating aimlessly, I think. That's not a meaningful goal. And there are a lot of examples of individual...
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VVLessa reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A bit of a tangent, but this is the second time that "intentionality" has come up in conversations about game design that I've been...
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VVLessa reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...
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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 think you're overstating things. White Wolf didn't refer to the GM as "the storyteller" for no reason and there is a significant...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This is why I tend to refer not so much to "modern games" as "post-Forge games". The actual Forge games are barely remembered and a lot...
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VVLessa reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think of "modern" more as pertaining to a RPG's overall design, rather than its mechanics. To me, a game feels "modern" if (i) it is...
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VVLessa reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This ^ this is the point I was mostly making. Modern mechanics are about that fact that there are rules being used in new ways to...
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VVLessa reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I am stating that Burning Wheel and other such games are obscure, not mainstream, and don't do any of the mechanics I suggested as well...
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VVLessa reacted to ezekielcroe9's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
i) I personally am seeing more advancement in these areas in that there are more rules built around or to support these components. I...
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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 think Masks is a very good example of a game that wouldn't have been created until relatively recently. A superhero game focussed more...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This is where I split Forge games from modern post-Forge games. Forge games themselves, like My Life With Master, Polaris, Wushu Open...