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    Let's Talk About Metacurrency

    The fact that Dungeon Crawler Carl has taken the world by storm is mind boggling to me. But I guess lots and lots of people liked Twilight and 50 Shades, too.
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    We aren't talking about D&D, or at least not specifically.
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    I have not played it yet, but I am pretty sure Draw Steel! went for a solution to this problem as well.
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    Let's Talk About Metacurrency

    Sure. I did not mean that flashbacks are bad. They solve a perennial problem. It is juts that they aren't nearly as much fun as a plan that goes right... for once.
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    Let's Talk About Metacurrency

    Flashbacks aren't really a replacement for that feeling of a plan coming together just right.
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    That is super interesting. How common is it for the characters and the scenes to be aligned?
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    Why I Hate Skills

    Despite having run many different games for many, many players over the years (due to running at cons) I think the "I roll perception!" player is pretty rare overall. Same for the "I run my hands over the rim of the chest looking for irregularities" player. Most players engage with the fiction...
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    Let's Talk About Metacurrency

    Shadowrun: 3 hours of planning, only for the Street Samurai to go in guns blazing...
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    I am not sure that this is tied terribly strongly to consumable resources, versus how the actually game engine resolves attempts and actions (but that's another thread).
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    Why I Hate Skills

    I don't believe those things are mutually exclusive. You can certainly designs systems where the players have to come up with clever solutions while using what's on their character sheets. And a "GM may I" style system is not better than a "I roll perception" style system if the challenges are...
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    Yeah, I wanted to distinguish since it can get a little fuzzy with things like hope. here I am talking about power points and spell slots and such.
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    Why I Hate Skills

    I think there is a lot of inertia in adventure design -- especially for games that go for that "old school" feel. I love nothing more than an adventure that surprises me with cool ideas and well designed challenges for the players. I haven't run a ton of Dragonbane, so I don't know how good its...
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    Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities

    NOTE: this threads is yet another in my "series" to get me thinking about a specific aspect of TTRPG design, as I try and build a conceptual foundation for my own RPG. As it pertains to the subject, the resources I am talking about here are things like spell slots, power points, Hope (not as a...
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    Why I Hate Skills

    Even in Dragonbane, if there is no time pressure and no consequence of failure, there is no reason to call for a roll. So include a consequence or throw out the test. Half the time, you can probably throw out the "challenge" entirely because itisn't one -- it is just a speed bump. We aren't...
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    OSR New Edition of HackMaster!!!

    Mine ended up a casualty of one of my periodic purges. "I am never actually going to play this." Ugh. So dumb.
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