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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
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At a very rough guess, having created a lot of background for many of my characters, about a third of it subsequently has significance in play. The other two-thirds... Well, meh. It gave me some transient satisfaction while I was writing it.
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06-23-2017, 05:08 AM | #12 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
I've never heard of that meme. I don't get out much. :)
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06-23-2017, 05:43 AM | #13 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
I haven't heard it either, and I get out plenty :-)
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06-23-2017, 06:48 AM | #14 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
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06-23-2017, 06:50 AM | #15 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
Same here -- never heard of it. I looked it up, and it's from "Portal," a video game that I have heard of but have never played.
(Edited to add: D'oh! Ninja'd by JMason.)
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06-23-2017, 07:53 AM | #17 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
I had heard the term, "The cake is a lie", but only in situations that made me associate it with the Star Wars related: "Join the Dark Side, we have cookies.". And as I read this thread before that article, I can't say how I would have reacted if I'd read it "blind."
I have gone through the solo adventure though, which I enjoyed. Well done. And I'm glad it included a full character sheet instead of only listing the necessary stats in each numbered post. It was the first thing I looked for after reading #1. I have seen Background generators like this before, but I don't remember where. So having one handy can be useful. Last edited by Dragondog; 06-23-2017 at 08:30 AM. |
06-23-2017, 08:40 AM | #18 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
All your sandbox are belong to us.
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06-23-2017, 03:46 PM | #19 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game
Fwiw, just hearing "The Sandbox Is a Lie" as something in Pyramid has pretty much disuaded me from placing this issue in my wishlist. I don't ascribe to meme culture, and it comes off as telling me that my prefered game style is wrong. My knee-jerk reaction isn't as severe as Rasputin's, but I will use my spending to express my displeasure nonetheless.
All of that said, the descriptions I've read so far seem to indicate that it's just the same subject matter that's presented on at least a dozen blogs from The Angry GM to our own Peter Dell'Orto's Dungeon Fantastic. That just leaves tables for randomly generating quests, which TheCollaborativeGamer is already doing on his blog - not to mention tables dating back to d20SRD and far older still. Basically, I can't see any value or original ideas that could be added by this article, and the suggestion that sandbox gaming is in any way substabdard or wrong just drives me away from Pyramid in general. Some of the other articles sound ok, but the distaste engendered by It's a Quest is more than ample to leave an overall bad taste in my mouth.
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