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I see Matt channeling his love of the ideas behind Red Hand of Doom into half of the core of his game's signature adventure.

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"average TTRPG is deeply invested in simulation and lore" factoid actually just statistical error. average TTRPG player cares minimally about lore and simulationism. Simulations Micah who lives on ENW & reads 3000 pages of lore a day is an outlier adn should not have be counted.

You're not really "tracking" that per se in that it's not ongoing. It becomes part of the action resolution, in the same way as calculating damage or hit/miss. DS! does have a lot more potential for cascading actions though, between forced move into circumstances + triggered actions (sometimes...

Yeah but while there’s a handful of people like you, threads like this wouldn’t exist if this was a common paradigm in the hobby.

This is a bit of an aside, One of the coolest PBTA “knowledge” moves is from Freebooters on the Frontier: “Establish When you introduce a potential fact and the Judge agrees that it might be true, say how you heard about it. When its truth is tested (now or later), roll +INT: on a 10+, it’s...

Sure, so it’s cool I didn’t say that! I just said that the wing of play which spends a lot of time and focus on the idea both in its community & actual rule-books generally in drawing a distinction for the newer player who may not be familiar is mainly the OSR+ in my experience. What you did...

This too, kinda going along @RenleyRenfield 's point WRT Tengu. I'll contrast this with a Forged in the Dark game I've run called Songs for the Dusk. It has 3 types of "people" in its post-post apocalyptic setting (heavy Destiny 2 vibes with some other stuff mixed in): Radiants (humans)...

There can be, sure. A heavily optimized high tactics play table is going to look very different then one where people get together to BS and talk at each other most of the time, but I might put that down under "system mastery." When I've seen it in theory-style usage, "Player skill" is usually...

Yeah, I've definitely heard people say they were super interested in some aspect of this world or that one, I just haven't seen it in play! Hell even the CR fans I had playing Call of the Netherdeep were interested in Exandria because of their fondness for the media; but not super interested in...

Just want to reiterate that I'm not sure I've seen the concept of "player skill" show up as a desired aspect of play outside of like "mastering the basic rules" anywhere besides OSR-esque play these days. I don't think it's terribly applicable to skills-rich or ability-roll focused games, those...

Last time we talked about this ("how do you get your players to care about your setting" was the thread I think), I said that having your players co-create a bunch of the details is the only thing that I've seen really work. My prime example is Stonetop, which does more to link the players...

I like how Elemental sorcerers have an ability to use their control of elemental magic as an additional Experience basically, merging flavor with a nice little bonus.

6! Each domain has 3 L1 cards and you can choose between them (edit: unless you were specifically pointing at “spells”). Dont forget that the Instinct ranged weapons are basically damage cantrips too and you should totally flavor them as energy blasts from wands or staves or whatever. Also...

There’s an additional layer of “how is the game feel that results from the mechanics.” Eg: what does the actual fiction that surrounds those turn by turn actions look and sound like.

Improvised an entire metaphysical "Oghma's Test of Mental and Physical Strength" off the cuff tonight, using nested Montages to resolve as a scene-framed dungeon, pulling memories out of character's minds ("Raka, tell us about the last time you felt true mortal fear?") to then play out in a new...

DS! only has 10 levels, unlike 4e's 30. Based on my experience so far and the general guidelines in the book you should expect 3-5 Victories per session of 3-4 hours. Extending that out and if you read the various ways the book suggests awarding victories beyond combat encounters, I can see a...

There’s explicit secondary weapons, but generally they just give you the listed Feature benefit (a shield gives you extra armor slots, a short sword gives you +2 bonus damage to your main hand, etc). When you make an attack roll, it’s with a single weapon unless you have a domain or class...

Also, if you have actual new players there’a a host of “teach the paradigm” content out there these days! Shadowdark even does this right in the player facing material and further in its free dungeon.