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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Friday Chat: What Mechanics Do You Steal From A Game To Use In Another?.Combat can be reduced to a single roll if you want it to be. Burning Wheel (or Empires, I don't remember which) has the "Quick And... -
zarionofarabel reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s) with
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Anyone interested in a pirate campaign should find a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! that will play on a device that they own. It's not... -
zarionofarabel reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread Friday Chat: What Mechanics Do You Steal From A Game To Use In Another? with Like.
We moved to using this rule for most all games when it comes to 'persuasion' or negotiation or even interrogation rolls... = Success =...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Hit points as luck.I think it depends on the amount of HP, and how they are utilized. I generally compare PC HP to the kind of damage a mid range weapon...
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The Cortex-based Marvel Super Heroic Roleplaying game can support that.
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zarionofarabel reacted to payn's post in the thread Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s) with Like.
I’ve long wanted to make a campaign off of Black Sails the series it’s so good. Though I’ve only done Pirates if Drinax sandbox for the...
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zarionofarabel reacted to TaranTheWanderer's post in the thread Tell Us About Your Pirate Campaign(s) with
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First of all, in all my Pirate games, everyone's favorite letter is "R" -
zarionofarabel reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons? with Haha.
For our convenience, of course.
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zarionofarabel reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons? with Like.
It’s just a D&D tradition. Dragons are different in other fiction.
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.The GM Turn is basically the PCs being given "orders" to complete a particular objective. The objective is whatever the GM decides. The...
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I've never read or played MouseGuard, though I have heard of its phases/turns before. (I know TB2e fairly well, but it uses a different...
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In Burning Wheel, on a successful roll the task is successful and the intent achieved. On a failed roll, the intent is not achieved -...
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I think this illustrates how task resolution, in combination with no sense that the GM is obliged to honour the intent, is a recipe for...
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This came up a few times in discussions of 4e: what's the DC for a Diplomacy check to allow another character to spend a healing surge...
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No, my understanding of systems that use that principle, like Burning Wheel in which it is phrased as "Roll the dice or say, 'yes'", for...