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ZSeems to me there are two reasons for crunch 1. verisimilitude 2. an opportunity for player rules mastery My brilliant conclusion...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with
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The core game is in 3 books totalling over 1000 pages. There are certainly much crunchier games, and 5E opted for very elegant... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
What, as the conversation seems to be getting to, needs discussing first is where we think the baselines are. I mean I can accept...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Stop Yapping, Start Playing: Trimming GM Descriptions.Ok but what about full paragraph length read-aloud text? :P Hitting 2-3 senses to evoke the spirit of the place and drop a couple hooks...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Yeah. I had to read the minion rules multiple times to fully absorb them - but basically they’re a pool of HP, and so if the total...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.There was definitely a bit of "new game with a lot of tags/keywords/rules" to work through tonight, but we had a lot of fun wading in to...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
The way I see it, we’re not looking at a pendulum swing so much as a branching. The industry didn’t collectively move toward...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
This is a false dichotomy. Nothing in "crunch" impacts what TTRPGs do that CRPGs can't. I think the "why don't you just play a CRPG"...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.I think that maybe we’re seeing a lot of recent games picking a narrower area of focus and designing as much rules overhead around that...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
I have never been convinced by the argument that rules complexities impacts "roleplaying" at all.
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Zzakael19 reacted to dbm's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
I haven’t played DS yet but I have read through the Heroes book twice solidly to get my head around the new concepts and how they all...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.That rat encounter looks inspired for something so early in a game experience.
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Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
Just got done running the Road To Broadhurst. We had a blast. For a game with so many new mechanics we picked up real easy. From a GM's...
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ZI am planning on getting a TTRPG set for my highschool nephew for Christmas and was thinking a great deal about whether the new D&D set...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
Not much more to say on the subject then. But I wanted to keep that visibible to people, because there's a lot of criticism that acts...
