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  1. innerdude

    Your baby: your own setting

    I ran a highly detailed setting for Savage Worlds Deluxe, one where I created my own continent and city maps, detailed how time is measured, political setups for 5 different countries, etc. It was a humans-only fantasy campaign, set in a pseudo-alt-historical real world where all of the old...
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    Has anyone got any flak for buildung a character that wasnt optimized?

    Yeah, I get what you're saying, the racial heritages do generally point to a preferred play style, but in the context of this thread, it's more about, what can a player do to distinctively play a trandoshan or rodian or ithorian, or whatever, that doesn't just fall back on existing tropes...
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    Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit film and gaming rights up for sale.

    Also, this has no effect on existing licensing contracts. Free League can continue publishing content under the existing agreement until it expires. The trouble will come when they try to renew. 😛
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    Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit film and gaming rights up for sale.

    Holy.... This is arguably the biggest media rights business opportunity in history. I'm guessing the final sale price will be more than Disney paid for Star Wars and Marvel combined.
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    Has anyone got any flak for buildung a character that wasnt optimized?

    Despite the horrid, condescending rhetoric of the blog referenced in the OP, there is a small grain of truth hidden within. Despite feeling an urge to punch the author in the face, he is not wrong in saying race+class+abilities are not the only way of expressing uniqueness in a character...
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    Is there one RPG to rule them all? What version?

    As one surely knows, you can't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any . . . Grus.
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    Looking for a short, rules lite family RPG

    Based on the OP's description, Tiny D6 (Tiny Dungeons or Tiny Frontiers) for the win. All of the books come with 8-10 pre-built mini-scenarios ready to go to help GM's get started.
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    I mentioned it earlier, but my big question in all of these hypotheticals is, does Nu-RPG, whatever it is, get off the ground and with the same traction as D&D before 1977? Because if not, I think the creative energy behind RPG design would radically shift following the release of Star Wars...
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    Going back to the parlor game alt theory --- the more I think about it, the more it makes sense that it would have been the genesis of the RPG movement. When I look at Ironsworn, for example: It doesn't make any assumption that there's anyone serving in a GM role, and provides strong guidance...
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    My First Game: Top Secret/SI

    TS/SI was the 3rd RPG set I ever owned, after the red + blue boxes. Never played it though. Made tons and tons of characters for it though, and even tried hacking a magic system on to it at age 13.
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    In this context, Game of Thrones gets reframed against Warcraft -- "It's Warcraft, but in a funky alternate fantasy version of England."
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    Hmm, interesting. So less that D&D doesn't exist, but more that it just dies off before being revived. To me that would heavily weight the scale toward Warcraft eventually becoming the mind share RPG game. It has all the hallmarks taken from "the original RPG", but with a scale of penetration...
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    In other words, what would be the generonym for RPGs right now if D&D had never existed? Like, if a kid were to say, "I'm going to a friend's house to play Universal RPG Generonym"? In that case the the most likely answers are Star Wars, Warcraft, or Final Fantasy. *Edit: though I wonder just...
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    What game Could "Be" D&D, Culturally?

    My thoughts go back to, what were the general conditions that gave rise to D&D? And yes, there's a huge shift if you assume that RPGs don't arrive until 1977 or later. As it stands, D&D has a pretty clear formative basis: Centered in the historical context of the early 1970s (important...
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    If it's "crunch" that you want, where do you want it and why?

    I'm not sure about the confusion . . . there's a 1-to-1 correlation between character material "bits" and rules complexity. The more mechanical bits a character has --- to either differentiate them from other characters or make the character more "realistic" within the assumed game world, or...
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    If it's "crunch" that you want, where do you want it and why?

    Only if its Crunchberries. Cap'n Crunchberries = The Awesome Regular Cap'n Crunch = The meh
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    If it's "crunch" that you want, where do you want it and why?

    I've been thinking lately about how much "crunch" I actually want in my games. I've only recently embarked on GM-ing FFG Star Wars, which is by all accounts a "medium crunch" system. Generally I'd agree with that statement, as so far it seems to be a bit lighter than Savage Worlds, but certainly...
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    What are your RPG plans for 2022?

    FFG Star Wars to the far horizons of the galaxy . . . . (Probably most of it not all year). If Star Wars goes less than anticipated, we've got another GM with Pathfinder 2 in the wings, or One Ring 2e, or Court of Blades.
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    "Casual" RPGs

    Tiny D6 (Tiny Dungeons or Tiny Frontiers) is absolutely perfect for this kind of thing. You can literally teach an eight year old how to play in five minutes. Players essentially don't even need to know the rules if you're willing to coach them on when to roll dice, and how many. Core mechanic...
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    Switching Around Systems Due to Burnout?

    This describes my experience pretty well, only once I stop flip-flopping, it's with a different system each time. For a long time, I gamed with a GM who would only run D&D 3 (then 3.5). That was 8 years. Then did the flip-flop thing for a year and a half or so, played Star Wars Saga for 6...
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