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Sorry to interrupt the art festival, but i'm just repostin this from the other thread since people were interested:Jimbozig posted:I'd also like to get some conversation going about traps. I saw it get started up a couple pages back but then die off. A few of you have heard that I'm back to work on SBBQ and intending to publish it soon. Ferrinus is doing art for me and he's got a really cool cartoony style that's a great fit for the rather un-serious tone of the game, and I've got another goon lined up to do layout and editing if I can afford to pay her. So I'm excited about that. Also he posted some cool art ferrinus did for the project:  I personally think monsters-as-traps are an interesting angle, the problem is the same as most traps- they can easily become fiat gently caress you's from the GM, the classic example being the Mimic. For this reason I think traps should often be about risk and the players opting to take risks, as opposed to just springing something on them. ymmv
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Yeah I think traps as spectacle is a pretty solid usage, although i'd be cautious about playstyle there. When entering a room full of spinning golden blades, one player will start drawing up a chart of each blade's rotation rate, while another flings a grappling hook and tries and swing/swashbuckle their way through.
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Less granular action economies aren't a bad thing if they fit gameplay. Particularly on the tabletop, it's often better to have simpler 'pieces' of design space, like a move+attack scheme. Easier to understand in play, and easier to balance in development.
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It's disappointing but it seems like Fred Hicks is a textbook peacemaker figure atm and that means he's going to come out with every cliche in the book in situations like this.Gau posted:Despite our occasional conflicts, Mikan is a cool dude and will be missed in the industry A Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Gau posted:Oh sorry, I didn't mean to repeat a joke on Something Awful.
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Rand Brittain posted:Is that because it's worse, or because tabletop gaming doesn't actually have that many levels past the surface level? It's not as if there aren't terrible people in other areas, but you can ignore them, find your own neck of the woods, and do things you own way to a far greater degree, while still being part of the community, and everything that entails. TTRPG devs don't really have a community, it's a smaller, more network-like structure.
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Guilty Spork posted:The most cursory look at Pundit or Zak's blogs should be more than enough. At the very best a rational person would conclude "These guys are caught up in poo poo that we want no part of." It's just bizarre that anyone could put them on the same list as Ken Hite, Robin Laws, and S. John Ross, all of whom have, you know, websites that don't immediately scream "This was made by an rear end in a top hat."
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