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Should there be an example adventure in the rulebook?

Yes, it’s Monday and so I ask a “should it be in the rulebook” question. (I don’t know how long I can keep this up.)

For me, this also covers the “should the rulebook contain pregens?“

For me it’s a clear: “Yes!”

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“I don’t believe in the no-win scenario”.

Of course we’re talking about The Kobayashi Maru Starfleet training scenario from Wrath of Khan. Invented by Jack B Sowards but promoted by Nicholas Meyer from the middle of a draft script to the opening scene because it is such a…

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How much asymmetry should there be between the GM’s side of the table & the players?

I maintain a list of random thoughts I jot down as they occur & keep until I need them.

I saw that two of them are basically the same. One was:

Different spell lists for goodies & baddies?

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How far can you go without having a fight?

It’s become a bit of a trope to look down on combats in #TTRPGs.

#TTRPGs grew out of wargames. Initially they were basically skirmish wargames with players controlling a single figure rather than an army.

Then, as they were…

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🌞 Good morning all my lovely #TTRPG friends! 🌞

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Do you buy a #TTRPG rulebook and stop reading when it says - “If you’re only going to play this game stop reading now. The rest of the book is for Game Masters* only”?

Really?

* or Mistresses.

I know, this is an argument for people writing a rulebook in two parts.

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🌞 Good morning all my lovely #TTRPG friends! 🌞

The hashtags of the day are #TabletopTuesday to share promos and/or celebrate the hobby and #TTRPGThoughts to share your ideas about games from play advice to #RPGDesign. Let's have some fun and mix it up today!

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Should NPCs be created using the same systems as PCs?

I’m finding my vocab limited this morning. The engineer in dry dock is a non-player character. But their droid isn’t. Is it?

I’m not currently finding the words for non-player but active tangibles with which PCs interact.

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Should it be in the rulebook? (1) Character Creation

So I’ve decided, rather than do a mega thread about what should & should not be in a #TTRPG rulebook, to post an item every Monday and se how far it goes.

The traditional model I’ve grew up on was Character Creation first.

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Use of art in a TTRPG reuse book, a partial exploration.

I try to post different thoughts each day but yesterday on the train to a con I was struck by the thought of giving a player a pictures and saying “play that”.

I’ve since realised where that idea comes from.

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Do you NEED any writing on a pregen character sheet? An idea for introductory games.

I run short introductory TTRPG scenarios for people new to the hobby. As such I’m keen to get people playing and not put a lot of rules between them and the action.

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What do you need to think about beofre attending a #TTRPG convention - a non-median case-study.

I post every day. I am going to repeat myself. (Hopefully with slightly different viewpoints.)

One of the lenses through which I view the hobby is through attending cons in the UK.

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I noticed.

Copycats!

I’ve been writing my #TTRPGTHOUGHTS like this for years. No going to change now.

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As a designer/writer/publisher what relationship do you have with your customers?

A reply to a Thought about PDFs earlier in the week said “including hyperlinks is just good customer service”.

Customer service? I don’t even know who my “customers” are.

There’s very little…

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I’m old & a lot of my thoughts are rooted in the early days of the hobby.

But thinking back, maybe the fact that the first edition of advanced “the world’s most popular role-playing game” consisted of three - co-equal - hardback books:

- one for the players.
- one for the DM

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