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The D&D 4th Chronicles: R&D Core Mechanics Article

Started by JamesV, October 07, 2007, 09:50:14 AM

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cr0m

#90
October 12, 2007, 11:10:56 AM
What Slaad said. Recently I invited a bunch of people to play balls-out, killer DM D&D. We rolled up extra PCs and everything. The focus of the game was elaborate battle maps, miniatures and tactics.

During the first battle, a relative newb got cut off, slowed, surrounded and hacked to bits by my lizardmen. The top of the next round, when my Reptile Cult priest picked up the comatose PC and threw his ass into a fire pit I was psyched! Killer DM!

Then I saw the look on the player's face.

So yeah, different play styles.
 

James McMurray

#91
October 12, 2007, 11:27:58 AM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadThe truth is that there are a variety of different play styles, both chronologically /historically and from group to group. Some groups play with the real chance of sudden lethality, some resent the same.

I hate to disagree, but there's only two styles of gaming: My Way or The Highway.

Caesar Slaad

#92
October 12, 2007, 12:20:14 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayI hate to disagree, but there's only two styles of gaming: My Way or The Highway.

Gee, you'd fit right in with all the folks over at ENWorld with their panties in a nit that some people (gasp) want "save or die". :D
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#93
October 12, 2007, 12:33:41 PM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadThe truth is that there are a variety of different play styles, both chronologically /historically and from group to group. Some groups play with the real chance of sudden lethality, some resent the same.

Me, I'm one of the former. It's not much of a chance, mind you, but I always want the threat to be there. I want my players to drop a brick in their pants when they see a beholder. Even high level characters should quake a little. I want dread and uncertainty. 90% of my games are run with the typical "clinical immunity". I want that other 10% and I want it supported in the game product.

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#94
October 12, 2007, 01:04:29 PM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadGee, you'd fit right in with all the folks over at ENWorld with their panties in a nit that some people (gasp) want "save or die". :D

No I wouldn't, because "save or die" is the wrong way. :)

Balbinus

#95
October 12, 2007, 03:06:33 PM
Quote from: CabBut your basic idiot doesn't stick playing D&D, he plays computer games or watches TV. The problem with pandering to the idiot is that he isn't the demographic who you can sell books to for years, and years, and years.

True, you need a special sort of idiot for that :D

Besides, presumably you sell to a number of folk who won't stay in the hobby, but their little brothers may take it up.  A percentage of each intake will stay in, so you have a bit of a long tail also.

But as the guys behind WHFB (I hate this bloody flu, I keep forgetting shit, apparently it's affecting my concentration or something) showed for many years, you can make money marketing to a market that is relatively short term but regularly refreshes.

Balbinus, who has flu in case he hadn't mentioned.

One Horse Town

#96
October 18, 2007, 05:48:58 AM
I thought i'd post this here rather than start a new thread.

Looks like Erik will get his video game jollies from 4e! Sorry, no link, just pasted from some wilderland of the web. :(

Back to the game: We fought undead and creepy bats. The three encounters broke down thus: four shadow bats, whose special power was partly nullified by our lantern and low-light vision. Then four zombies and two traps, and then two zombies headed by a creepy rotting zombie thing and a dead creature that could reanimate zombies after they fell. That was a pain. But a fun pain!

Melan

#97
October 18, 2007, 09:50:12 AM
Quote from: cr0mDuring the first battle, a relative newb got cut off, slowed, surrounded and hacked to bits by my lizardmen. The top of the next round, when my Reptile Cult priest picked up the comatose PC and threw his ass into a fire pit I was psyched! Killer DM!
My only reaction to that situation, either from a player's or a DM's viewpoint, is an enthusiastic "HELL YES! :D "

But, well, the target audience doesn't play that way anymore. More's the pity. :what:
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