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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 9715252" data-attributes="member: 7038056"><p>Yes and no.</p><p></p><p>OP could have figured out from reading the book that the game wasn’t going to work for them because of the low HP, roll to cast mechanics, and general lack of character abilities so from that perspective, sure the sample size they played was enough to say “this isn’t for me” because it proved those things were issues with how they apparently play TTRPGs.</p><p></p><p>But the rest of the problems were either the GM not running the system according to the advice in the book (reaction checks to see how monsters respond, giving hints to warn PCs of danger) or the PCs just refused to pick up on the hints and figured if there was danger they could handle it because they played 5e and just charging in works mostly fine there. If I played a system and had their results, then had people explain ways the game wasn’t being ran correctly according to the designer’s intent I would definitely be willing to try the game again either running the game myself to make sure it was being ran the way it was intended or with a GM who actually was aware the game is supposed to be different from modern TTRPGs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 9715252, member: 7038056"] Yes and no. OP could have figured out from reading the book that the game wasn’t going to work for them because of the low HP, roll to cast mechanics, and general lack of character abilities so from that perspective, sure the sample size they played was enough to say “this isn’t for me” because it proved those things were issues with how they apparently play TTRPGs. But the rest of the problems were either the GM not running the system according to the advice in the book (reaction checks to see how monsters respond, giving hints to warn PCs of danger) or the PCs just refused to pick up on the hints and figured if there was danger they could handle it because they played 5e and just charging in works mostly fine there. If I played a system and had their results, then had people explain ways the game wasn’t being ran correctly according to the designer’s intent I would definitely be willing to try the game again either running the game myself to make sure it was being ran the way it was intended or with a GM who actually was aware the game is supposed to be different from modern TTRPGs. [/QUOTE]
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