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Today, 04:13 PMYeah actually, if you remove all things from the scenario which could possibly make alternate goals or decisions at all meaningful, its a railroad....164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Today, 01:56 PMThis argument only possibly holds for scenarios that are already railroads. So yeah, what you say might be true - but only if you have a scenario...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Today, 09:50 AMYeah it's possible that in Chess you can't even chimera anymore. I think in Go, a professional can still chimera with AlphaGo or AlphaZero or...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 07:45 PMTalakeal, the games I listed *are* RPGs! They're cRPGs, because the sort of literal perfect information you're talking about is objectively...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:42 PMPerfect information games are IMO actually more able to be truly difficult than partial information and stochastic games, because you can't hide...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:08 PMI've played Go that way against players stronger than me. It's worth a few stones handicap, but it definitely doesn't mean I can trivially beat them.164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 05:28 PMThe example was literally in the post you responded to. Go and play a chess game with a player you've never met but who is around your level. You...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 04:50 PMThese in particular are manifestly false.164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 11:17 AMThe economics of D&D are weird so it's sort of hard to calibrate how much is actually reasonable to invest in a cart... Lets say you're selling...7 replies | 720 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 04:11 PMYou aren't breaking character to show the players the optimal path. You're breaking character because the players are failing at something they...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 02:49 PMThe structure of my argument here is that even in an adversarial, competitive game sometimes you have protocols that call on you to help the other...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 01:47 PMI wouldn't say the players were entitled to support, but rather that the sequence of events that actually happened was strong evidence of a lack of...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 07:19 PMAn extreme example of why communication is so important... I had a setting with two neighboring countries - Sarsena and Sepena. Sepena had gone to...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 06:59 PMLots of settings, lots of answers... Generally though, the essential things which make something 'magic' to me rather than something else are: ...19 replies | 1383 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 02:02 PMWhat was the player response to the last bit? Was it 'No, we refuse to tell you'? Or just like 'We already told you everything' or 'We told you what...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 01:05 PMIt's a mirror in that you don't want to communicate and they don't want to communicate, you both have excuses for why that's the right choice, but...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 12:27 PMCommunication in general seems to be a problem here. The GM's perspective here is a mirror of the players! The players don't want to just randomly...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 06:51 PMYeah that's not actually like what I said... Its not 'are you sure?', its 'Okay this is explicitly why the Seelie are refusing. Also I am telling you...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 05:29 PMThese two sentences don't make sense together. Did you say explicitly: "Okay lets try this again. The changelings need to know everything you know...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 12:59 PMNichG replied to a thread Speculation Not every DM loves a page worth of backstory, but I do... in D&D 5e/NextFor something that's going to be published, no, I wouldn't trust that. But I wouldn't trust a colleague with a PhD to do it either. I have actually...19 replies | 1493 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 12:45 PMIn general: the usual thing of don't have a single line of play through which the 'plot' must proceed, and don't approach scenarios with a mindset...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 12:08 PMNichG replied to a thread Speculation Not every DM loves a page worth of backstory, but I do... in D&D 5e/NextTrying to treat them as search engines is working against what they're actually okay at. They work best if you think of them as translators or...19 replies | 1493 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 08:21 PMNichG replied to a thread Speculation Not every DM loves a page worth of backstory, but I do... in D&D 5e/NextI don't care what tools someone uses, as long as they know and agree with what they're handing me - and agree that what they're handing me is what...19 replies | 1493 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 05:33 PMHmm, maybe the stopwatch capable of unlimited Time Stop, but it would randomly freeze you for an equal amount of time later on at the GM's...25 replies | 1992 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 12:35 AMI think per-round DR is nicer than per-attack for some of these issues. It means that coordinating attacks (and doing things to prevent attacks from...82 replies | 7589 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 09:45 PMGoing back to the 'factor set' thing I mentioned before, imagine setting up the drought scenario within that framing. The initial factor cards...218 replies | 11323 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 07:42 PMAs a DM, push-button solutions can be okay too if they have consequences, or if they're very expressive, or both. But, for a drought scenario, the...218 replies | 11323 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 05:20 PMGiving other archetypes strong out of combat options that are as definite and determined as spells would be a great idea (IMO), and would definitely...218 replies | 11323 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 05:06 PMThe mass of an infinitessimal 4d volume element will also be an infinitessimal. The math, at least, works, even if the poster was not explicit about...26 replies | 1111 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 03:23 PMDM should have granted the first sentence and thrown out the rest without reading it. Partial fulfillment is a thing. IMO, rules lawyering of the...51 replies | 4348 view(s)
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