Hi all! Decided to start a general discussion thread just for any random thoughts/questions anyone may have. It can be CR related, it doesn’t have to be. I’m thinking of creating this in a monthly cadence.

The community isn’t very active, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions/requests?

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  • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What are people’s thoughts on the Illuminated World’s system? On one hand, I’ve been digging Candela Obscura, but on the other hand, I can’t help but feel that the show is carried in large part by the amazing DMs and PCs and that the system itself is a bit too “loosey-goosey”, for lack of a better term, for other people to pick up and play. A lot of game mechanics seem arbitrary and up to the DM to decide when they occur, instead of motivated by a set of rules. For example, whenever a PC takes a body it always seems like it comes out of nowhere. You touch a random object that you don’t know has a speck of bleed, you take a body, you open a closet, you take a body, etc. I just feel like with a less than stellar DM, it’d become too arbitrary for most normal players.

    EDIT: Also, yes this community isn’t very active, but I wanted to say thanks for creating it in the first place! It will grow with time I am sure.

    • Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      1 year ago

      I ended up watching the Titansgrave series (GM: Wil Wheaton and Laura Bailey playing) not long ago and they used a system they said was modified from Kids on Bikes which also uses three 6-sided dice. The easy pro of a system around the standard cube dice is the accessibility to more people, but:

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      it is also the most frequently used in magic tricks