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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode.My mind is of course going to keep going to DH since it's what I'm running a lot of right now, and it has phrases like "collaborate at...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with
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However, it also may be its own style that exists independently of the other two, and that is what this thread is about. -
Zzakael19 replied to the thread 13th Age Everything you ever wanted to know about 13th Age and Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard.Does 13th age have a bounded enough modifier system to do a well controlled Skill Challenge framework? One of the best things about 4e...
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ZSpeculative pricing from devs on the Discord are around US$100 for 5 key "party pack". So yeah, it's around your price point.
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Yet another "How old are you?" thread.Most folks still avidly using forums tend to be Gen X across all the ones i participate in, with a distribution that curves into older...
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ZOh we are old. I thought I was getting a little bit more of a millennial vibe here, but I guess its just millennial wannabe.
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ZCloser to a Xelennial, actually.
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ZI think "most" is doing some heavy lifting in this response. In my experience, the kind of people I've played with would very much...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode.I'm not sure if historical context has been lost per se, the fact that there has been a host of successor games leaning very hard into...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with
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Yeah but thats because half of the thread is, intentionally or not, missing the point of the OP. Frankly, the OP was so correct there... -
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I'd say Combat as Theatre doesn't mean that it is staged in the sense of there is a predetermined outcome, it can be (and often is)...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with Like.
Fabula Ultima restricts when and how a PC can die. When reduced to 0 HP, the PC must either Sacrifice themselves or Surrender. The...
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Zzakael19 reacted to prabe's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with Like.
Again, the difference between pro wrestling and any sort of actual game is that in a game the outcome is in doubt--Steve Austin was...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode.True "Combat as Sport" intentionally designed games are generally extremely anti-GM putting thumb on scale. If the GM is tweaking the...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Piperken's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with Like.
One thing to keep in mind is there are long traditions everywhere for what is described above e.g. in wu xia novels and their...