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- Sat Jul 13, 2019 1:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: City of Mist ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1155
I'll echo the recommendation on The Alexander blog articles. And I've found a detailed analysis of the game here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/adventurerules.blog/2017/03/07/adventure-rules-reviews-city-of-mist-starter-set/amp/ While the setting looks very interesting, the fusion of PbtA with Fate-l...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
@Erik, forget physical store sales. We are in 2019, not 1989. Also, if you want to see the influence of the light narrative school, consider the likes of Blades in the Dark, Fria Ligan Games (Mutant Year Zero, Tales from the Loop, Forbidden Lands), Numenera/Cypher, Beyond the Wall, the new Kult (Div...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: City of Mist ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1155
City of Mist ?
It seems like a fusion of Fate and PbtA. Anyone read or played it?
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: BESM Fourth edition Kickstarter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1302
Their cover art's too saturated, those are American cartoon colors This kickstarter will probably deliver before the Shinobigami one that was funded 5 years ago. A shame. I was hopeful that Kill Death Business would come after, but after Andy delays with Ryuutama and Shinobigami, I doubt anyone wou...
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
@Virgil , I never said there wasn't one-shot or short-term games before the 00s, I said those were the exception in those days, while they've become popular nowadays. PbtA and Cortex are good examples: when in the past we had engines made for short-term play getting this popular and being hacked int...
- Tue Jul 09, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
- Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
Another trend of modern design, this time by someone else I've read in the webz, and agree with: I would add: - Explicitly designed for short term or even one-shot play . It's not just the difficulty of picking up a new set of rules that discourages people from picking up a new game; it's also the i...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 2:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3020
the hobby was saturated by the simulatiomist-complexity-madness of the 80s engineers No no no! Bad puppy! Not on the carpet! Those aren’t even terms anyone agrees to. Some aren’t even words! If you don't know what simulation and complexity is, I don't know what to say. The hobby wasn’t saturated by...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 11:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: System that encourages 'gaming it' for storytelling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1114
Tenra Bansho Zero is great. We played a couple sessions of it and had a blast. I agree with your impressions and I think this is a quality of games that are good at genre-emulation . I've seen a similar story about Masks a New Generation: a player who wasn't familiar with the teen supers genre was p...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3020
Yep, but how popular or influential was Amber to the 90s as a whole? Or Everway and Over the Edge for that matter? I think the fact those games began to pop in the 90s (and they began to pop exactly because the hobby was saturated by the simulatiomist-complexity-madness of the 80s engineers) dont me...
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3042
JT, perhaps the problem with structures were the non-combat based / more social themes that eventually appeared? The farther from the wargaming roots, the longer it took to authors to create solutions? VtM and Unknown Armies come to mind as examples of games with themes strongly directed at social i...
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3020
The 2010s are waaaay worse than the '90s by my reckoning Wut? If anything, 2010's games at least address their central premises with coherent rules, something most 90s games didn't (most of the time). Look again: Pathfinder, Fiasco, Fate Core, The One Ring, Nights Black Agents, Icons, Smallville, M...
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3020
Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
70s - the pioneers. Wonky unintuitive rules. Simple - but solid - play structures and premises (the dungeon). DIY because the official rules won't cover everything, or cover but badly. 80s - the engineers. Reaction to pioneers turns into seek for coherent rules turns to obsession with simulation. Al...
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ryuutama
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2866
Interview with Ryuutama creator: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNOBswRYQIsnRUZGcp27x1pRi9QB7RfIQnP8hmYx9Vw/edit He talks about inspirations, travel focused Dragon Quest III, Drizzt in the Underdark, an RPG called Traders! Cool interview, thanks. Anyone know the difference between Ryuutama and...
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3042
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
Ancient History post is spot-on*. That's the same pattern we have in music, movies, etc. A huge diversity of products sharing the spotlight instead of one or two monolithic ones like in the past. The very spotlights are multiples/diversified these days. *I only disagree that we don't have actual rul...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3042
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3042
I'd say that of the Storyteller games Except Werewolf don't deliver on their core premise. Vampire is a dark superheroes game and not a game about politics or personal horror. Exalted is about low-level adventures and not about epic storytelling and kingdom building. Mage is about not casting spell...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Spire ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2247
Thanks for the link. I'll hear it later.
This is something I feel would greatly benefit the Spire:
https://bladesinthedark.com/sites/defau ... ctions.pdf
Specially with proper mechanics in place to track those relationships and the effects upon it's changes.
This is something I feel would greatly benefit the Spire:
https://bladesinthedark.com/sites/defau ... ctions.pdf
Specially with proper mechanics in place to track those relationships and the effects upon it's changes.
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 5:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 12:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3042
Broken games?
What games are absolutely broken in your opinion? Like in, say, "This is a Supers game" and nothing the game does actually delivers anything resembling Supers. That kind of stuff.
Can you remember some you have read or played that's like that, and why?
Can you remember some you have read or played that's like that, and why?
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is considered to be "modern" RPG design?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17536
Didn't you come here like a year ago, referring Mearls's tweet, and we countered with objective research? Did I? Sorry can't remember, apologies if that's the case. Regardless, it seems from 2017 onward the sources in the article get unambiguously objective, right? Amazon, Orr group, etc. That's th...