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Comment on New DM’s: Have fun reskinning and playing with keywords by [Beyond Dragon Age] Star Wars: Age of Rebellion playtest document « Dragon Age Oracle

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:09:13 +0000

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tasleem — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:39:24 +0000

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Comment on Take the muzzle off, D&D Next is Here! by newbiedm

newbiedm — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:10:03 +0000

well yes, but that’s been happening since 2008 or so.

Comment on Take the muzzle off, D&D Next is Here! by joebloch

joebloch — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:07:31 +0000

“Nobody’s dancing on 4e’s grave”

That’s not entirely true. I, and most of the OSR, are.

Comment on Take the muzzle off, D&D Next is Here! by Josh

Josh — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:09:02 +0000

Looking forward to playtesting this weekend… have read through everything and it does seem like a good set of bones to build from… I will have to see how certain things play out… I feel like failing a skill check and hitting a hazard is a bit too hard to do (especially for rogues, with their minimum score of 10 on their die, gone are the days when rogues set off traps when they fail to open them? seems odd to me)… I like the idea that we don’t have to use grids anymore and look forward to playing old fashioned pen & paper once again (even if I then go back to grids). I like some of the new mechanics (advantage/disadvantage) and the streamlining of stats and such…. will report back after some actual playtesting. Oh, and looking forward to more posts from NewbieDM too! – Josh

Comment on Reader Contribution: The recap newsletter by 99 Problems But a Lich Ain’t One (Hundred) | The Id DM

99 Problems But a Lich Ain’t One (Hundred) | The Id DM — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:54:41 +0000

[...] and listen. My first roleplaying game article was hosted by NewbieDM back in January 2011. At the time, I did not have a blog but my motivation to write about my experiences as a player and [...]

Comment on NewbieDM Tutorial – Counters, Tokens, or Pogs by Meet The Meat Of My Game | Gnome Stew

Meet The Meat Of My Game | Gnome Stew — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:24:11 +0000

[...] but it is sometimes nice to get an idea of layouts. To that end, we’ve used tokens, vis a vis Newbie DM’s article and Patrick’s article that built on Newbie DM’s original work. Here are the tokens that [...]

Comment on Space Combat in my SW/Age hack by newbiedm

newbiedm — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:31:38 +0000

Also, if he were a Force User, he could do certain things to heighten his speed or abilities. But that’s not reflected in this report. But yes, he’s mostly rolling without making many decisions. He could plug in a droid and let the droid handle it while he goes to get a drink.

Comment on Space Combat in my SW/Age hack by newbiedm

newbiedm — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:18:23 +0000

If you look at it that way, then yes. But I’ll counter that his role is extremely important in the scenario, because they had to leave the area quickly. he has taken the time to pick the “Astrogation” focus to make himself a better navigator, there’s also a Talent he can pick to make him even better. So if you look at the movies, a large part of thre Falcon’s fight with the TIEs had _some_ folks sitting around. There’s only so much to do in a ship after all. Part of the issue with SW I guess.

Comment on Space Combat in my SW/Age hack by LS

LS — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:13:16 +0000

It seems like it would be pretty boring to play the navigator. His role appears to be rolling dice each turn, and just hoping they’re high. He didn’t really make any decisions in the gameplay you described.

Maybe some kind of Astrogation minigame could be developed?