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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".It depends greatly on the goals the players come up with. If a PCs goal is to explore the world, then exploring the world is not only... -
zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's talk about system options versus character options..I dislike the bespoke "PC things" in most cases because it creates a rules exception based environment and much of the rules...
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Just something I saw over at DeviantArt - not my work
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".Player driven sandbox. BW enforces said playstyle by having the primary focus of play being PC Goal Completion, as opposed to the more...
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zarionofarabel reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with
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Key tropes of BW play: GM builds adventures based upon on-the-character-sheet goals set by players All actions need to specify goal... -
zarionofarabel reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with
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D&D has no intended playstyle and everyone plays it! It can do Doctor Who, Critical Role, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lord of the Rings... -
zarionofarabel replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".Burning Wheel
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think.Not even for one moment. Do GMs actually run games they don't want to run? Does that actually happen? I don't know about others, but you...
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zarionofarabel reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with
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Jumping in late on this… I’ve been in the hobby since 1977-78, in multiple groups across 5 cities in 3 states, in over 100 systems... -
zarionofarabel reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with Like.
Exactly this. Do a parallel poll about how many consider their game to be at least partially "sandbox style". Then subtract all those...
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zarionofarabel reacted to AstroArtificer's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with Like.
This is gonna be a controversial take, but what if the problem isn't that the GM isn't interesting enough, bur rather it isn't the right...
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zarionofarabel replied to the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think.This 👆
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zarionofarabel reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Why do so many campaigns never finish? Genuinely curious what others think with Like.
I think it's also worth noting that not all campaigns have an end that can be reached. If most D&D campaigns are homebrew affairs, as...
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zarionofarabel reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas with Like.
Yeah, exalted has a bit too much mechanical complexity in what is an otherwise cool setting. I think I was thrown off by the charms as...
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zarionofarabel reacted to MGibster's post in the thread RPGs that you feel trip over their own cool ideas with Like.
I was all set to play an Exalted game until I sat down to make a character. I think it was Charms that broke me.