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Autistic Vulture:
Wow. A callback to a strip that ran sixteen years ago.
shanejayell:
New strip up.
:D
Yet another thing Marten and I had in common.
(Is it wrong I'd like to see a in-universe D&D club?)
Gus_Smedstad:
It saddens me that I never met a girl like Clarissa during my school years.
... also, in reference to strip 131, I don't see pencil-and-paper RPGs as something immature, something that should be outgrown. D&D specifically, maybe, since it's not a very good rules system despite its overwhelming popularity, but not RPGs in general.
Done properly, a RPG session can be a sort of collaborative storytelling experience. Done badly, it can be a mindless exercise in rolling dice and collecting imaginary loot. Most games tend to be somewhere in between.
As for me personally, no, I haven't played since college. But that's entirely because I never found a group again of like-minded players.
This also applies to my boardgames. I haven't played a proper wargame since high school, because I didn't run into any opponents. I did run into Euro board game players here and there in the decades since, but right now I've got two bookshelves full of games of varying weight, from Carcossone at one end to High Frontier at the other, and no one who plays locally.
Not that you're going to see groups getting together during the pandemic, of course.
Torlek:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 13 May 2020, 18:43 ---(Is it wrong I'd like to see a in-universe D&D club?)
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Given they're in Northampton, said club would probably exclusively play AD&D (but ironically) because they believe it is the "pure" way to play the game.
But there's been an absolute sea-change in the perception of board games and (to a lesser extent) RPGs over the last 15 years that's correlated with the mainstreaming of nerd culture. There's also been a huge growth in the quality (production values and marketing, there's still plenty of horrible playing games) in a lot of games too. The ones that are more likely to require an adult level of cognitive ability look sleeker now and less like spreadsheets.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Torlek on 13 May 2020, 20:40 ---The ones that are more likely to require an adult level of cognitive ability look sleeker now and less like spreadsheets.
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Back in the day, wargame rules followed an unpleasant to read outline format, organized in a X.X or even X.XX heading format. One of the problems with High Frontier is that the rulebook still follows that format, despite being published in 2011.
--- Quote ---6.1 ROCKET MODIFIED THRUST (Acceleration). Your modified thrust sets how many burns you may enter per turn, and how big a world you can land on without lander fuel (6.4C). It is calculated before your rocket moves, and is applied for its entire move. Use a blue disc in your Acceleration Track (2.4A) to show your modified thrust for this turn.
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When I first started playing games, the rulebooks for the serious games were all like that, and I just kind of took it for granted that it was the "right" way to organize a rulebook.
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