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Xamnam reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Yes, of course you think it was clear. You stated it. But I don't think it was clear because you said "do you stop..." so I asked... -
Xamnam reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Your goal as a group is to produce compelling fiction. Your characters have goals, but they're a piece of the fiction, not the point of...
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Xamnam reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Fiction -> mechanics -> fiction. If you're missing that first step, you're doing something other than what the game wants. It doesnt...
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Xamnam reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
In the defense of lots of people, Blades and/or PbtA can be a real issue to grok when you come from different kinds of games without a...
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Xamnam reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Pacing. There are benefits to allowing to tension and pressure to build, especially in the context of a game built on heists and... -
Xamnam reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a mechanism that puts mechanical pressure on the players to ablate the pressure soon or suffer...
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Xamnam reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
One of many things I love about Deep Cuts is basically getting rid of Controlled as reason to roll dice. Just pay a cost at that point...
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Xamnam reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
The first RPG I know of to use the phrase "play to find out" is Apocalypse World. It appears on pp 108-9 of the rulebook: AGENDA • Make...
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Xamnam reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
This likely isn't coming off as you think it does.
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Xamnam reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
Here's the core challenge of the rest model. The game, as designed, is based on challenging the party through resource attrition. If...
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Xamnam reacted to Ulorian - Agent of Chaos's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
Honestly, this seems like a white room problem that would never present itself to most folks. In the real world, if you get a DM and a...
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Xamnam reacted to jayoungr's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
Here's the thing, though. Taking LTH is my group signaling how they want to play. They want to be able to have a lot of control over...
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Xamnam reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
FWIW, part of the Threat Roll redux in Harper's Deep Cuts is designed to alleviate some of these issues he'd seen around the internet in...
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Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs? with Like.
They weren’t cut, they just don’t have explicit PC stats in the PHB. They still exist, and can be played a number of ways, from using...
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Xamnam reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yeah idk, the book is widely accepted to have some serious organizational issues which maybe results in people getting a little lost...