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The Supreme Court
Feb 25, 2010

Pirate World: Nearly done!
I was just wondering about it today, actually looked in trad games in case you'd put up a thread already! Looking forwards to it, you did a great job last year :)

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The Supreme Court
Feb 25, 2010

Pirate World: Nearly done!

grassy gnoll posted:

Well there's yer problem!



Since Secret Santa season is upon us, I wanna do a quick straw poll to see if one of my backup ideas is going to be successful. How many of you nerds have read Iain Banks' The Player of Games?

Brilliant book. One of my favorites.

The Supreme Court
Feb 25, 2010

Pirate World: Nearly done!
Dungeon World is a great idea: I'm sure there was a guy who wrote a blog on running it for kids and that they absolutely thrived in it with a little bit more prompting/ focused questions. I want to say it was a guy and his young daughter, but I think there was one with a school and a bunch of teenagers too?

The Supreme Court
Feb 25, 2010

Pirate World: Nearly done!
Dungeon World is :krad: and like 15x better when you get rid of the D&D crap.

The Supreme Court
Feb 25, 2010

Pirate World: Nearly done!
I know it's not exactly what you're after, but my favorite thing is when RPG books build the mechanics based on the setting; stuff like Apocalypse World's rules, which instill the crazy, weird and uncontrolled setting and feel throughout every bit.

I reckon Dungeon World does this masterfully, assuming the setting you're emulating is "playing D&D exactly as your five-year old self wanted it to be" (and I bloody love it!).

The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 26, 2014

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