• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    long term

    If you can remember THACO, tabletop games have survived needing to change a few systems in the past

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      I don’t need to remember it. I’m in the middle of replaying Baldur’s Gate 1. But that was more of a complicated math formula to derive something that we can do much more simply. The hope and fear thing not only reminds me of that scam curriculum in Donnie Darko, it also doesn’t feel like an interesting tactical layer; it does the opposite by interfering with initiative in a way that I’m not a fan of.