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zarionofarabel reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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The comparison of the play of games like CoC, Pendragon, Burning Wheel etc to boardgames is quite bizarre. Look at how people actually... -
zarionofarabel replied to the thread Why I Hate Skills.Maybe it's because I've had a "fiction first" approach to TTRPG play long before that ever became a term people used, but the idea of...
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I cast 'Restore Je Ne Sais Quoi' on Conan. That stab to the face really bummed him out.
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That's why my PC carries around a meat-meter, to measure my depth of meat remaining. My plan is to have my PC's artificer friend...
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Burning Wheel is pretty clear on what a GM can do to dice pools by spending Fate or Persona for a NPC. Marvel Heroic RP is pretty clear...
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When a D&D player looks at their PC's hp, sees that they are getting low, and so has their PC drink a potion of healing, that's pretty...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.How does one determine what the limit is in regards to how much the GM is allowed to author? What is a good TTRPG that lays out in no...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Vampire the Masquerade: Love the setting but not the system.I think if you are worried about tactical combat in a game of VtM you have completely missed the point of what the game is about and why...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Umbral_Magmus's post in the thread Vampire the Masquerade: Love the setting but not the system with
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My group recently tried running a campaign using Vampire: The Masquerade 20th. We really enjoy the setting and lore and would like to... -
zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.Meh. I can take it or leave it, at least on the player side. It can be handy to reinforce the idea that players are allowed authorship...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with Like.
It's one of the reasons I'm feeling so enamored of Dragonbane right now. Very flat power curves.
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zarionofarabel reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with Like.
I've had players who would absolutely eat a failure if it was needed for them to get advancement. They wouldn't necessarily like it...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Campbell's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with Like.
So, Burning Wheel is not particularly narrow in terms of premise. As long as characters have beliefs they are willing to fight for...
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zarionofarabel reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with
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There's also the "negative reinforcement", which I think has at least two aspects to it: (1) For the player, if you don't earn artha -... -
zarionofarabel reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with Like.
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