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Things About 4e I Learned from the RPGA | A Butterfly Dreaming — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:11:56 +0000

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By: Tommi

Tommi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:44:14 +0000

Scott;
For me, the line was broken once or twice.

Still, not a bad book. It seemed to use “shit” a bit too much, but maybe that was a matter of translation. It is not really relevant.

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By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:13:59 +0000

@Tommi: I see where you’re coming from, but I don’t entirely agree. In a book, I like getting setting detail. I don’t feel that it ever overwhelmed the plot (although it came close, once or twice), and a lot of the things I’d pegged as flavor detail were worked back into the plot later.

It could’ve been tighter, but for a first novel, I’ve seen much, much worse.

Now, in a game, I’d agree… one of the reasons I never really used the Forgotten Realms setting was the sheer amount of detail that I’d find extraneous. In my own games, I tend to have a lot of it available in case I need it — but I rarely do.

By: Tommi

Tommi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:47:05 +0000

About mister Lamore lying: One thing irritated me about the books, and it was the author’s tendency to randomly ramble about completely irrational bits of setting info. And to drop names of months or days as if I wanted to bother learning them.

That, too, teaches something about running games.

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By: ScottM

ScottM — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:29:55 +0000

It sounds like you had good tables for your RPGA games. I’m pretty similar in outlook– RPGA games can be a good substitute for a real campaign, but it’s not quite the same.

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