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OC is very much not Story Now, it's Story Before(Using the terms as explained here) but it's written by the players--preplanned developments or character arcs that they themselves set. But the reason that I'm into OC is because I am an OC player; I like builds, I like having a flexible plan on...

Yes but games do espouse a certain playstyle to be the 'correct' way to play them, some more than others. Or to be more exact, what games caters to the neotrad playstyle?

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

It's a playstyle, but playstyle inevitably creates a design ethos as players try their hand at designing a game themselves or designers are making changes/new systems to better help with that playstyle. Like look at Chronicles as to how a system can develop into being more and more player...

Some forcefully(Fabula Ultima a PC can die only if they make a heroic sacrifice, otherwise they surrender and suffer narrative setback/the story's theme changes/they forcefully make a negative Bond towards the Villain. 13th Age every character must be tied in someway or another with the big...

Do you make the world revolve around the player or do you want the player to be part of the world? That I think is the main differentiation between Neotrad and Trad.

IMO Fundamentally, Neotrad can be described as 'High GM Authority but bent towards the players aspirations/desires with rules system as a 'check' for that authority'. So yes, that was Neotrad or at least a playstyle that's under the umbrella of Neotrad. Wish fulfillment and power fantasy are an...

...Or at least played in a Neotrad way? I'm very, very interested in discussion in regards to this playstyle because I'm invested in it becoming more developed and mature despite it already being such a dominating force in TTRPGs I'll copy the definition for Neotrad from the lbog...

Western geek culture definitely, but Anime and Japanese stuff still has a decent enough 'churn'.

And very very good if you don't like 5e! Hell, it's not like many 5e players comprehend or buy the books anyways.

If you really want to look at the new gen hotness, anime is where you'll find them

So? I'm not seeing much negatives there. it's like complaining that there's different Fast Foods and everything should be McDonalds, or that it'd be great if only Chrome existed. You may see TTRPG systems as standards while I see them as individual works of creativity.

This is the difference between you and me, because I think the latter would be better overall for the TTRPG industry as a whole.

I do think that right now, what's inspirational for the common fantasy nerd isn't literature but video games and TV/Movies.

Unironically great for me. 5e winding down is such a good time to me

It's good that 5e is being thrown away actually. I think it's good that less people are playing DnD specifically.

You gotta make sure to have your buddies have a lot of ways to inflict OFF-guard for you to be a ranged rogue(Kineticists with the Ice stance, Trippers, etc, etc)

TradOC was just something that I thought would be more appropriate as a term because after talking with the writer of the blog, the article that he linked used the term differently(Basically hybrid storygame+trad game design mostly used in swedish game circles). I had a reddit post using it and...

It's probably the difference between making a Naruto/FF14 OC and making just an OC

How did the Conduit play like? Like how did it gain resource and what kind of powers did it have?