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Reply To: Dumbing Down RPG's

May 14, 2019 at 11:57 pm #1390720

horus500

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My gaming group and I had this discussion last week. I think it all part of the game designers plan of simplify to stop play getting bogged down in minutiae. When I watch videos of modern role play there’s far less combat and a lot of focus on role play. In a lot of cases they emphasise the ‘gaming in the gaps’ as Warren would put it, to get players to flesh out their characters and worlds.

It’s easy to dismiss as dumbed down but often when I’m being objective and not blinded by nostalgia, I remember that whilst I had far more fun in older systems, they were clunky, time consuming and often an exercise in maths and accounting as much as a role play and combat system.