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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Dungeons of Drakkenheim Experiences?.Moderate prep, keeping track of the factions and stuff is going to take some setup. Individual locations are laid out pretty well to...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".If your player characters have strong innate goals and objectives, you place situations around them with no expectation of how they play...
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Zzakael19 reacted to soviet's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with
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The emphasis is on 'play to find out' and who is doing the finding out - it should also include the GM. If you are a player in... -
Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Well, if the players are sitting down to play an Adventure Path I hope they're excited to engage with that! But I think it's generally...
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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.
I think this is absolutely one part, yes. So "play to find out" contrasts with Adventure Paths, metaplot, etc. I think the other part...
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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.
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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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".The core of the ideas is that you don't have like, a chain of plot and events set out. You don't have "the PCs must do A, and then at...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".You play to find out the answer to things. No idea where you're coming from here. Pretty much every game that builds "play to find...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Not true at all. You can't play to find out something if the GM doesn't have some idea of what's at stake! If you say "An army is...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Committed Hero's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Dynamic antagonists and things happening offstage don't violate "play to find out" (unless they are invulnerable to PC input, I...
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ZThere's no one class or mechanic that covers all of these things. As zakael19 mentioned, a lot of these are built into the various...
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ZI think the adventure anthologies are usually better received than the big honking adventure paths (other than Curse of Strahd).
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ZThe text actually uses both obstacles (in its common usage) and Obstacles. For instance: "The GM starts the game with his turn. He gets...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
Yeah exactly. There are so many games which have complexity in completely the wrong places. Often it's not even subjectively wrong as in...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Crows Officially Announced by MCDM.Yeah, the blog is pretty full of the idea that this is "what if we made the kinda OSR-esque / dungeon looting game we want to with our...