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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8690843" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, I mean, there are people who design and deploy actual traps too. I certainly wouldn't argue that nobody in the world exists who might qualify. They are just not sitting at a D&D table, or at VERY few of them, and the way D&D and traps are structured, they would have to be the DM for it to matter. In fact I'd think being a trapsmith and playing old school D&D as a player would be a highly frustrating experience! lol.Oh, I entirely agree, it is one of (along with insufficient general knowledge being at the table) a primary reason.Eh, not really. I mean, I haven't played Cypher, but I read through it pretty carefully. Its a very calculated and deliberate design who's basic premise is a conscious and systematic rejection of Ron Edwards et al. In tone and even in some ways in a structural and mechanical sense, it parallels PbtA and similar types of games very closely in what it addresses, and then utterly commits itself to a GM-centered fiction pure task-oriented system ala games like Traveller (and I mean Traveller as classically portrayed by most people who play it, not [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER]). I guess what I would say is it is VERY analogous to Top Secret S.I. or FASERIP games that have a fortune mechanic. There's a meta-currency, which is not a feature of Traveller, but in terms of resolution and how and why it works, Cypher System is right out of the mid-1970s.</blockquote>

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