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Oh absolutely. Back from GenCon and all. Love to see you at Darrington, that's fantastic! Say hi to Darcy for us, we love her(who doesn't).

Oh hey, I just put a lot of pieces together real fast! Anyhow you're welcome, it was a fascinating read. I just hope you didn't get to the bonus content, because I'm sure we played it absolutely wrong.

Good, I hope it gets more airplay so I can get it at the karaoke place.

That's what I'm here for!

Power level to me feels like something about relative strength of the enemies than any sort of mechanical flexibility. That said, I'd take a look at the 4e-style combat engine in Strike! which has lower HP caps, reduces the damage numbers to flatter values, and is relatively divorced of fluff.

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A group of people sit around a table in a Game Kastle with papers and drinks in front of them. In the foreground is a copy of the Dungeonmeister Random Monster Generator.

Lookee what came up at our GM support meeting as a good example of avoiding throwing the usual monsters at players.

The random monster generator is so cool.

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I think the funniest part is simultaneously claiming his party will be somewhere in the middle and will appeal to disaffected democrats while working around the clock to make his AI toy a nazi.

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Indeed! We'll be at Pax U this year, so I believe we'll be in Philly for my birthday.

Hey come look at me get real mad about bad mythology.

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No I just can't afford to take up more sources of no cash.

Nah there's no cash in that.

We just often encounter games where it feels like the writer thought the play model was obvious, presumably because they have been playing it, and they don't think about the new user experience. It's pretty vital.

I don't think there's any particular one size fits all solution, which left me being intentionally vague. A use case is all I ask. I want to know what the writer of the game envisioned play of the game to look like. That could be play examples, a module, whatever.

Haha we're in the news now.

I don't think any of that was the actual point of the discourse, it's just funny how there's like useful advice to designers anywhere you look if you squint hard enough.

I can't tell you how many books we've basically panned because they're just character creation bolted to some no-entry-point grade inscrutable world building. No bestiary, no adventurers welcome sign, no road map of any kind, just an untouchable metaplot and some dice math.

If instead of "You aren't a game designer if you don't design a bunch of adventures" it was "A good game should include use cases for why characters do what they do and examples of play loops" that'd be fuckin' great.

It's funny, but like there's a kernel of useful advice in that shit discourse thing, it's just presented as needless vitriol and ivory tower fartsniffery because that's what gets the eyes.

Shit someone should have told me this before I wrote a fuckin trivia book.

I'm not a game designer. Sorry I don't make the rules.

She call me Unca the way I Scooge.