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VVLessa reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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It's hardly dangerous to call something "modern" in an informal online discussion, but claiming that doing so is "dangerous" is... -
VVLessa reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Then within a discussion of tabletop games, such a definition is useless, it describes nothing. Time has no relation to quality, or even...
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VVLessa reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
No, you are incorrect. Synnibarr has no such GM limiting mechanic. Fate (the GM) literally has a sentence that says "Fate has...
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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'm going to say "people are playing different games at the same table and all playing the games they like and interacting with each...
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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 obviously prefer games built around vision where everyone (including the GM) feels like they are playing the same game. I think that...
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VVLessa reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I don't know if you consider this relevant, but Synnibarr has a DM challenge mechanic to give players agency over DM rulings. It was...
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VVLessa reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Other than intentional design how would one describe designing from a vision and only including mechanics that contribute to the...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
By the time you hit 2e, no. But there absolutely 100% was a functional difference between what oD&D called a Referee and a Storyteller...
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VVLessa reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Naw... There is absolutely no functional difference between what WW calls a ST vs what D&D calls a GM. Neither system has mechanics...
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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.
That's a good point, and I definitely agree with your last sentence. When I wrote that last night, I was thinking of the difficulty of...
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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.
There are two problems with that: 1. He may have pushed the dungeon pretty hard, but there was also a heavy focus in parts about...
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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.
You start to have serious questions about the purposefulness of design when you see a bunch of independent subsystems for different...
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VVLessa reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
History, when I took my bachelor's in it, defined modern as "1965 to present" - that was in 1993 to 1996. We're definitely post-modern...
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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'm on the side that thinks that OD&D (and Gygax's AD&D, at least up until the end of the PHB and for good chunks of the DMG) had a...
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VVLessa reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Of course it does. I mentioned the Palladium system earlier in the thread. I don’t feel a whole lot of intentional design went into...