Is this good game design?
>>729564778I'm not reading that.
I think the philosophy of the rules being a template with which the players use to craft their own personalized experiences is inherently built into role playing. You would really just have a standard PvE co-op style board game without this approach.
>>729565016well shitskins can't read so I'm not surprisedgo the fuck back
>>729564778There's nothing this article raises that isn't resolved by including the pertinent parts of the article in a small introduction paragraph to the feats section.
>>729565183D&D was successful in the editions before WOTC implemented this kind of design and many people still prefer them now. 1e and 2e were mostly each character of each class is the same outside of stats and what spells wizards had.
>>729564778Monte Cook is a weird dude, I heard from /tg/ that he got fired for using the company dime to go to some horrifying "art" show in japan where the "artist" cut off his own penis and then fried up slices of it and fed them to the audience. You can look up articles about the show still, I hope to god there isn't video.
>>729565016Idiocracy was a documentary.
>>729566359I don't want to believe you.
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>>729566526You're not intelligent for reading everything everyone ever shows you, retardo. Learn to identify things which have no place in your brain.
>>729564778Yes, players being rewarded for learning the game is a good thing. What's not a good thing is him deciding that this was a bad thing.
Yes there needs to be retards that get filtered by obtuse rules and noob traps so it's fun to not be retarded/get your hand held. The important part is that engaging with the game is complex and necessary. Many games are terrible at this, devs try to provide nuance and sidegrades (nerfing them out of fear/lack of vision) more often than not going in a straight line or not engaging with the systems at all is optimal.
>>729564778One thing that immediately came to mind while I was reading that was EVO moment #38. A pretty shit attack that has an incredibly niche use somehow becomes the deciding factor (specifically, that drop kick 11 seconds in).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfSp4IoowU
>>729564778so just metagaming? never choosing certain spells, always using the longsword?
