The problem with this article is that it’s all circumstantial. Sure these are people complaining of problems and critiques, but we’ll never get the full report of how many returns there actually are and why they were returned. That’s just not data Apple will ever give out.
So they just let anyone write opinion pieces now?
Can you imagine spending all that money on a car and expecting certain features, only for them to change based on the whims of a manchild who gets his feelings hurt?
I bought wireless headphones about 4 years ago and haven’t used wired since. Even when playing through speakers, in my car, and all that I just use Bluetooth.
Power. The moment they retire they give up the ability to control people’s lives.
We use discord. My group is actually about 4 groups connected together with overlapping players, so it’s a place we can all congregate virtually. We have a channel for scheduling, ones for in-game content, and some for just messing around.
“I don’t want to say that there are necessarily equivalent health risks,”
I mean, they said it themselves. Drinking responsibly and in moderation poses no recorded long-term health risks. But even 1 cigarette a day can cause serious harm.
Seconded for ICRPG. The way it handles exploration and the whole tension die thing is great.
Thanks for putting another system on my radar. This looks awesome!
I’m shooting for a combination of the 2 kind of. Think spaced out hexes with montages linking them together. It’s the transition between the 2 that I’m having a hard time with. Maybe looking at games like Fellowship that really specialize in this sort of gameplay for inspiration could be helpful!
This aspect is really close to what I’m trying to accomplish. Zoom in on some action, then montage the travel until they hit another focus point. But you’re advice of prompting something of interest and letting them lead into the focus scene is take neat!
The campaign and system are all about traveling though dangerous lands from point to point, exploring along the way and staying alive. I think maybe though I’ve put too much emphasis on the points if interest and not enough thought into the travel in between. Possibly this is because there’s built-in pressure to do this as quickly (and sure, safely) as possible, so I never really thought about them actually doing things when they don’t need to slow down and fight/explore.
Hmm … Maybe doing the “who’s scouting” and prompts like that can be a good lead in and out of these obstacles where things speed up and slow down!
The campaign (and system) is all about traveling through dangerous areas from city to city, exploring along the way. While I do generate these areas ahead of time so it’s not completely random and disconnected, there is this built-in slow and quick gameplay pacing. Perhaps it’s just something the game is going to be and I just need to get over making it something it’s not.
I haven’t looked into Torchbearer yet! Seems like it might be good for research.
These are all great ideas! The system I’m mainly running is moving from event to event just like these. A mixture of fights and obstacles, with points of interest also sprinkled in where they can find world building things.
My bigger concern is moving from one of these to the other in a smooth way, without it clearly feeling like we’re just jumping from one point to another. But … maybe there’s just no getting around that.
I completely agree! I think my shorthand of using “narrate” was possibly misleading. It was more about how to transition between points of interest leading to and from these conversations. You bring up some great pointers though that are super useful!
I use it in 2 campaigns. 1 is traditional D&D in a homebrew setting, and the other is future science fiction. It does very well for the sci-fi one because there’s no preconceptions of setting.
We’ll never know. This is all based on people’s complaints online. Apple will never actually release how many were returned and for what reasons.