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What would you like to see more of in role playing games?

Started by Nexus, November 10, 2013, 10:39:55 PM

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Nexus

November 10, 2013, 10:39:55 PM
Mechanics, story lines, style, mood, anything is open. It doesn't have to be something you'd want to used exclusively just things you don't think or used enough or haven't been used at all that seem like good ideas.
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November 10, 2013, 10:52:05 PM
Quote from: Nexus;706971Mechanics, story lines, style, mood, anything is open. It doesn't have to be something you'd want to used exclusively just things you don't think or used enough or haven't been used at all that seem like good ideas.

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November 11, 2013, 12:11:10 AM
Box sets
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#3
November 11, 2013, 12:14:39 AM
Better editing standards
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#4
November 11, 2013, 12:56:21 AM
Topless women.  

Drawings, that is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it really sets the mood. You see so much of it in old art about mythology and such.

Shauncat

#5
November 11, 2013, 01:01:48 AM
Bigger stakes in the world. Letting the players own property or a manor or a business or a stronghold, and have problems spring up from them naturally.

Things that let the GM say, when the players ask "what's the next quest???", "you tell me."

jibbajibba

#6
November 11, 2013, 01:27:35 AM
More toolkits but with enough examples that the lazy GM doesn't have to do the legwork if they don't want to.

Don't give me 8 playable races give me a toolkit for creating playable races and 8 examples.
Same with Classes.
etc
etc

More GM advice for constructing worlds, engaging players, how to run games 2 hours long or 4 hours long, 2 sessions or 40, notes about pacing, foreshadowing and player hooks, etc.

In fantasy an interesting system for magic item construction.
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November 11, 2013, 01:40:13 AM
Game fiction



Hahahahahahahahohoheehee...no.

Ravenswing

#8
November 11, 2013, 01:58:10 AM
Modularity.  I want the first few pages of the corebook to be the irreducible rules necessary to run the game, using the irreducible core mechanics -- the game's "lite" version.  I want everything else to follow to be flagged with great honking red letters "OPTIONAL."
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Omega

#9
November 11, 2013, 02:08:26 AM
Intelligent players and DMs.

No really.

In the last 13 years it is like the collective IQ of the gaming community had dropped and dropped and dropped.

TristramEvans

#10
November 11, 2013, 02:36:41 AM
Quote from: Omega;707005Intelligent players and DMs.

No really.

In the last 13 years it is like the collective IQ of the gaming community had dropped and dropped and dropped.

I've gotten that impression as well. I thought mmorpgs would have "culled the herd" so to speak, but, well, mostly I blame the Internet.

therealjcm

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November 11, 2013, 02:43:15 AM
Game fiction that reflects how the game is actually played.

Multiple, very short, intro adventures that introduce increasingly complicated mechanics 1 by 1.

System synopses that actually cover everything you need.

jeff37923

#12
November 11, 2013, 03:12:58 AM
More originality and less of slapping D&D on every possible genre.

Fewer social issues getting in the way of having fun.

More accessibility to non-geeks or non-nerds. Tabletop RPGs should never be "members only" games.

Less creating of new RPGs and more open license RPGs to allow viable sytems to be expanded upon with new settings.

Less of this fucking "planned obselescence" and "splatbook treadmill" in publishing.
"Meh."

Omega

#13
November 11, 2013, 03:29:37 AM
Quote from: therealjcm;707007Game fiction that reflects how the game is actually played.

Multiple, very short, intro adventures that introduce increasingly complicated mechanics 1 by 1.

System synopses that actually cover everything you need.

1: Been tried often. People bitch about it.

2: Some games do try that.

3: A rare few games do try that. That was actually one of the feedback requests during playtesting of one of my early books. So I added it in.

Kyle Aaron

#14
November 11, 2013, 03:37:33 AM
More snacks.

More excuses to roll dice.
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