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Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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My take away from this is that, for the skill list to work, (i) the table has to care about the difference between getting in close and... -
Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
This made a lot of sense to me! I can't really credit that the way players debate and discuss among one another and work out their...
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Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
By "internal consistency", you seem to mean something like "has a uniformity of trope and tone". Not a property of the fiction from the...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
My question here is why do you consider consistency the biggest virtue rather than at the very least the Scylla to the Charybdis of...
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Zzakael19 reacted to innerdude's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
** Sigh ** The game is free. Go play it. It's meant to be played solo as a default mode of play. Go try it out for 2-3 hours. It's a...
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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yes, there’s a difference between a player actively seeking to position things to his character’s strengths than “just describing it...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Yes. I'm saying there's a bunch of Player Principles about not going "I MUST USE MY BEST ABILITY OR FAIL." They're in the book. I dont...
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Zzakael19 reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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Oh, well, that's not good. If there's one thing I know about common sense is that it's not very common. If fact, as far as I can tell... -
Zzakael19 replied to the thread Draw Steel General Thread [+].Yup. It’s the best way to dip your toe in with a group by far. Solid adventure, tutorial level.
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yup, that's a great way to not have fun playing Blades IMO. But if it works for someone else, great. It's no example of how the game is...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Idk man, playing like that is ignoring the Best Practices that are supposed to help the players bind their instrumental play to a...
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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Yeah, I think lowering Position and/or Effect is something that’s missing when I see complaints like this. The book provides a page or...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I've never had any issues with the BitD skills. If a player is edge-casing they can but it'll lower position and or effect. I'd agree...
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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
See… “they are all combat skills” is what I think is off. And also “you just try to describe the thing so that the best skill applies”...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Ok! I mean, people talk about GM forward OSR play as being totally obvious and easy to do and I bounce off it hard for a variety of...