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Improvisation vs. "niche protection" in combat: Mutually exclusive?

Started by Vegetable Protein, August 08, 2012, 06:43:12 AM

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August 09, 2012, 09:48:35 PM
Quote from: jibbajibba;569248I believe, as I have posted previously, that RPG as a sport is prevalent in old school play, the 10 foot pole school of play, whereby alll PCs are hyper efficient team players often picked to fill team gaps and all of whome adopt a range of familair tactics that all the players PCs use. You can see this when for example you look at Say Old Geezer's response to being asked if they ever did sub-optimal things becuase they were in character, or if they ever described their attacks beyond 'I roll to hit' .
Towards the end of the 1e era Gygax stated that he thought the Role part had become more important than the Game part of the process.

Excatly, in LARPS the sport players believe in using their personal skills (athletic, mental, and teamwork) to the fullest. The only roleplaying they imposed on themselves, (the ones that showed good sportmanship) is that they limited themselves to what their character knows in-game.

MGuy

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August 09, 2012, 10:03:22 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;569848If it's intentional, it's lame, but if it's unintentional, it's fucking hilarious.

Speaking of which, did anyone notice that there are no minorities in the Scooby Gang? Let's start a "Scooby-Doo Is Totally Racist" thread over at RPGnet Tangency! :D

Hahaha. The funny thing is that at first it was intentional and since then I'd just continued to read his name that way so on a post where I actually didn't mean to offend I ended up doin' it. Hilarious.
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Quote from: MGuyFinally a thread about fighters!

IceBlinkLuck

#32
August 10, 2012, 12:12:35 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;569864To me Flashing Blades always felt like all FGU games, good physics engine with some colour pasted on top. I love all of them of course but Daredevils is my favourite.

Any PE (a new abreviation for physics engine) based rule set can handle improv easily.

Yep, I've always had a fondness for FGUI's games. Especially the spate of boxed games they came out with for several years (Bushido, Daredevils, PsiWorld, Flashing Blades, etc.) They worked hard to tailor the mechanics to the game world.

As much love as Honor + Intrigue is getting I probably need to pick it up. I kind of obsessively collect games from that setting.
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Black Vulmea

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August 10, 2012, 12:15:39 AM
Quote from: IceBlinkLuck;569960As much love as Honor + Intrigue is getting I probably need to pick it up.
Though it's not to my own tastes, I think it does a great job of capturing the genre and it's definitely worth picking up.
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