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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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Yeah, I think the one common thread we're seeing amongst the folks posting about success of player-driven campaigns is that they all... -
Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
In my case, I read out to my players the brief account of the people of the Realm, which includes this: SEERS • Those who understand...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Yeah, and when abstract a "Site" out to a nodal-style collection of related scenes as a framework, it's pretty easy to spin this sort of...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Site-crawling can also be done improv-style. I just generally frame it as "Ok, who built this? What were they using it for? Who is...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Just to "yes, and" this with a commercial product that I keep returning to, this is more or less what the Neverwinter Campaign Setting...
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Zzakael19 reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I know reading and running Burning Wheel helped alot procedurally due to the fact that BW is purpose built to run player driven sandbox...
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Zzakael19 reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I don't play online. Honestly I have no idea how to work all that kind of stuff. The basics of prep is to get the players to setup a...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
The Meatgrinder is a brilliant bit of design.
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
I agree with you, but I think we need to be careful to keep player habits separate from best practices for a given style. I've played in...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.His Majesty the Worm uses a “Meatgrinder” table where you remove entries from the table as they are encountered. There may be others...
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Zzakael19 reacted to J.M's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
For me, the brilliance of Mythic Bastionland is how the Myths and Omens work. It solves the issue of random encounters being...well...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.Ohhh yeah, totally. Hopefully that’s pretty clear from the page, but this is another place where the author’s focus on trimming down...
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Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with
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If the players can't see past the need to obtain and act on information, then when the time comes to resolve a myth, there's the risk of... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
Correlation does not imply causation The way a high level spellcaster is set up and designed is not the way anybody really wants to...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.No idea what any of that means! Also, the game says “the group feels a Myth is resolved” and the group in this context also includes...