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VVLessa reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with
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See my previous two posts. I'm not kidding when I say that I think the rules in this book are compelling and inspirational. In this... -
VVLessa reacted to SteveC's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
People have been talking a lot about "D&D Killers" as in "is this the game the next D&D killer?" And I think, in a broad sense, there...
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VVLessa reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
I don't think 'Conceptual Horizon' or anything like that is involved. A game text is a text containing the instructions for how to play...
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VVLessa reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Perhaps, I wouldn't die on that hill, but in my experience MOST RPGs, particularly more traditional ones, make HUGE assumptions about...
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VVLessa reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
I believe this is pretty squarely a “NSR” game, which generally wander away from old school D&D tropes and mechanics while keeping to or...
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VVLessa reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Another thought on this game - which obviously I've become temporarily obsessed by! - that also relates to some of the issues in the...
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VVLessa reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Thanks for the link to that blog! I agree with the blogger that there are some gaps in the rules, but actually don't think the Myths...
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VVLessa reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Yeah, this is what I was getting at. Gamers who are used to rules sets A and B that have features/mechanics X and Y might easily...
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VVLessa reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
From my perspective, it's uncertainty around how non-Myth-related prep and non-Myth-related framing are meant to work. I can plug the...
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VVLessa replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Btw, I think Shadowrun is an interesting example that touches on the discussion about modern design. Just like me, I see a lot of people...
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VVLessa replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Nah, I love Shadowrun as it was my first RPG, but those subsystems are the nearest to an objectively bad set of rules I've ever seen...
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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 think the bigger point is that simplifying almost always means you are giving up something. In your hypothetical example of...
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VVLessa replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Oh, sure, I'm totally for that! But I think there's a difference between crunch with a purpose and what I was talking about. For eg...
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VVLessa reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
Yup. TV source material that inspired the game usually goes this route. Characters come and go, sometimes even the main characters...
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VVLessa reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
Apocalypse World is canonically aimed at a dozen sessions from memory. It plays fast and hard. Most PbtA games are similar length. I...