Comments on: Role-Playing Made Difficult? http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/458 Advice on making your game great. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JackOfHearts http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-54761 JackOfHearts Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:48:17 +0000 http://www.gamecrafters.net/?p=458#comment-54761 After posting and reading the comments, I really wish I had chosen another example. You and a commenter on the post have both made the excellent point that there is no reason that a player can't have both the mechanical benefit and flavor benefit. I agree completely, and it was a poor choice of an example. Rather, my point was that optimization of class builds and the nature of the combat rules with combat on a battle mat and figurines often makes the game feel more like a tactical war game than a RPG. I am all for re-skinning powers and feats to better suit the flavor of a character - I wish it happened more. After posting and reading the comments, I really wish I had chosen another example. You and a commenter on the post have both made the excellent point that there is no reason that a player can’t have both the mechanical benefit and flavor benefit. I agree completely, and it was a poor choice of an example. Rather, my point was that optimization of class builds and the nature of the combat rules with combat on a battle mat and figurines often makes the game feel more like a tactical war game than a RPG.

I am all for re-skinning powers and feats to better suit the flavor of a character – I wish it happened more.

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