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When introducing it to people, I often call it "an alternate universe's 5e." It's about as different as any edition change before...
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It worked in 4e, and it worked in 13A. Given the encounter-balancing rules for those games are well-oiled machines, as opposed to the...
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Are you using mechanics and system interchangeably here? If so, there is the problem. System includes ethos & principles (which...
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My personal view is that Daggerheart will most likely exist in the same liminal space as Cortex Heroic/Prime, Dune 2d20, D&D 4e and to a...
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"Narrativist" doesn't - at least in the usage stipulated by the person who coined it - label any features at all. It labels a goal of...
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"Valid" is not the write word. GNS is a descriptive analysis, not a normative one. Edwards' view is that the goal of "getting the...
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Ran One Night Strahd, which is an excellent remix made for con / oneshot play and includes a host of themed pre-mades at level … 6? iirc...
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Edwards describes it as only appearing to be a separate aesthetic aim either because some folk have such low standards that their play...
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Right, but also moving a lot of discretion about how to apply the rules into the system, both in terms of combat but also by using SC...
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At first when I read that 4e has significant assets for narrativist play, I went: o_O Then I went: :unsure: And now I go: (y)
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I think the biggest two differences between 4e and 5e are: How much of your character's abilities are inherent to you and how much are...
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I'm sure some people have fun with traps, but they've always felt like a burden. Mostly because traps are fairly binary. It's like a...
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Hi. Im running 4e, 5e, and playing 4e story now as we speak (in metaphorical terms, not literally concurrently to be clear). 4e...
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That's cool and good for you (sincere). But that isn't how things have gone down here on ENW. IMO, its one of the more weird (yet...
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Yup. I mean. Edwards (the originator of the Narrativism essay) independently coming to the same conclusions that you and I did (I...
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