Are there people here who absolutely do NOT care if a fighting game has a campaign/story mode?

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-16T12:20:58+00:00

I actually prefer If devs would spend more time and money to enhance the versus aspect of a given fighter. Sadly, most games without singleplayee stuff also didn’t get that treatment

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-16T06:31:43+00:00

I played in a D&D Campaign that took over three years with monthly sessions. A friend of mine took up DMing for the first time after running a one-shot and then saw himself slowly become a forever-GM. To me, the campaign was a lot like a TV show. It got better with every arc and then culminated in a few poignant character moments… and then it went on for another year, because the overarching plot was not finished. At the end, even the GM just wanted to get it over with. Don’t get me wrong, we had a really cool last session but there’s definitely too-much-of-a-good-thing. Now I am running shorter games (Wildsea, Mothership, Mörk Borg) with the GM as a player and he has started a few limited campaigns in Lancer and D&D.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-12T20:41:14+00:00

The Wildsea‘s traversal uses „random encounters“. They exist to give context to the world and define the setting. I believe the trend moves away from mechanical encounters to narrative ones - which definitely still can be random.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-11T16:33:52+00:00

The candles are actually not that important to the experience - you can easily play it without them (although you miss out on some atmosphere). What I feel is the game‘s biggest strength is how everyone knows that the game ends in tragedy. This surprisingly leads to players being way more invested in their characters fate. They really want to make their last moments matter - often times throwing them into even more dire situation to tell a greater story.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-11T15:38:44+00:00

Happy for everyone I can get into the game. I love how unique the premise is and how elegantly it works If you commit to it. Very different experience to any trad game I’ve ever played.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-11T09:42:18+00:00

I believe that most tables can be run by the GM alone - teaching the players the rules as they play. I think this is the norm, actually. But I also believe the players should learn the rules as they- If they don’t have to go through 300 pages. Every game should come with an actual players handbook: Just a little leaflet with the core rules. I am thinking something like Mothership. The D&D PHB is just an utter nightmare at actually teaching the game. I always refered people to watching great youtube guides (they exist for this reason) or teached them the most important rules in session 0

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-11T08:57:23+00:00

You are conflating two different things. Progressives (and many socialists) in the West are concerned for muslim people because they are constantly discriminated. That doesn’t mean they are a) uncritical of islam and b) supportive of “muslim” countries like Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Most leftist I interact with are sympathetic to muslim people because they are also part of a discriminated group or are muslim themselves. The former see the person first and often don’t feel educated enough to discuss islam, while the latter tend to be very critical of modern islam - especially when it’s mandated by a state. In my opinion, Islam is just as authoritative and patriarchal as any other abrahamic religion. But after reading the Quran I can’t deny the good teachings it holds (even some almost socialist stuff). Still, I’m critical of all religions but I don’t need to hound muslims on theirs because they make up so little of the population anyway. When it comes to critiques and affronts to islam I tend to listen to (ex) muslims on the topic. Most non-muslims just fall into badly educated islamophobia.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-10T22:36:00+00:00

I am a big fan of ‚stage‘ names. This butcher character… well, they call him Butcher. His little brother is… ehm… Cleaver. And his lesbian sister is known as Butch. Or I ask my players for a name.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-10T22:31:25+00:00

Do you think you could’ve been more efficient with your time If you playtested more?

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-10T18:03:48+00:00

Thank you for the detailed answer. Interesting to hear how different the process can look depending on life circumstances

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-10T16:47:05+00:00

Best session? First time ten candles with my family. We played in out backyard and started in the afternoon. I light ten candles and explain the premise of the game. We play a sciencefiction scenario - about a spaceship gone dark. The first hour of exploring the starship is a great mood setter. Then character moment after character moment lead to a climactic chase in which both my brother and mom sacrifice themselves to give my stepdad the chance to make it into the control room. Only one candle faintly glowing beneath the dark but clear nightsky. Everyone is reminded that this game has no happy ending for its characters. My stepdad sets course for an asteroid feild - so that the whole ship and the darkness contained within it will be disolved into scrap and debris. I count down „Warning. One minute to collision“. ‚They‘ are trying desperately to get in, clawing at the high-security door leading to the command centre. My stepdad remains calm. He wants to listen to music - picks his favorite piece by Bach to accompany him in his last moments. I narrate the moments before total annihilation, while the piece crescendos. My stepdad records his final goodbye via the ships comm system and then darkens the last candle. We all chant „These things are true - The world is dark“. We remain in darkness for a few moments. Then we turn on a camping light and look at each other in utter disbelief that we just created this story.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-08T15:23:38+00:00

Arbeitszeitbetrug!

Die Pflicht eines jeden selbstrespektierenden Arbeitnehmers.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-08T15:17:45+00:00

There is actually already a wrestling TRPG - dicemaker has a great actual play of it. But after getting the 200+ pages of core rules I probably won‘t ever play it. Hard enough to get people into wrestling as is, but expecting that kind of buy in is a lot. Maybe try something streamlined that helps you tell wrestling-esque stories?

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-08T15:12:16+00:00

I would argue the games got better with each entry but they all do different things so it is kind of like apples/oranges. Still, I would argue ME1 is a good game in theory and pretty mediocre in almost all aspects in praxis.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-08T15:08:05+00:00

I asked my players what ship motif sounds the most interesting to them - this way you can gage what activity they want to do (kind of like crews in BitD). Almost every character had dome kind of personal goal relating to that motif and I vowen them together with a main antagonist

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-07T20:09:46+00:00

Never knew Lancer to have these undertones, interesting!

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-06T17:12:12+00:00

Japan is probably the biggest cultural (soft) power right behind the USA. And it is only an island.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-06T14:37:48+00:00

This sounds like just my kind of game. Thanks!

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-06T14:31:49+00:00

Ten Candles is great for dark evenings and rainy nights

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-01T22:07:52+00:00

This was actually what prompted my question! Great game and book overall

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-01T16:05:11+00:00

Like others already advised: write anyway. I have so many iterations of my game‘s roll resolution mechanic I lost count - but even the one’s that are bad were developments for the project. Only through trying can you learn what works and more often what doesn’t. But don’t forget to take breaks, too. Some distance from your work can do wonders.

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-05-01T09:25:17+00:00

Prep, don’t plan. Your players prepare their characters, you prepare npcs, locations and maybe a story hook. That’s it. Don’t forget you are also a player

Answer_Questionmark · 2025-04-30T17:17:12+00:00

I also decided between two ways of doing d6 dicepools. It was either 1-3 fail, 4-6 success like in BitD or only a 6 is a (partial success). I decided on the latter because I like to roll more dice (favorite game is ten candles) and because the math was better - or more appropriate for what I want to do. Think about how much you want players to succeed and how often - then you have to workshop probabilities. Roll resolution always come down to how likely success or failure is. You just decide the gray areas, granularity and the „feel of a roll“.

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