31 - The way a persona’s body language changes when you mention diceless games like Amber and Nobilis is truly special.
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32 - Exalted. Just, like, all of it? I mean maybe not ~all~ of it. But man, Exalted, wow.
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33 - 1 Gold = 1 XP is SUCH a brilliant and elegant rule when you think of it in terms of the genre assumptions it is emulating.
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34 - Ars Magica’s Covenant system, both in its conceptual sense but also in its expression as a modifiable in-game home base, is light years ahead of its time.
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35 - Furthermore, Ars Magica’s codification of troupe-style play with textually and mechanically distinct characters who have varying power levels and inversely related adventuring motivations is marvelous.
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36 - Katanas and Trenchcoats making Highland style Immortals their own distinct urban fantasy category alongside vampires/werewolves/etc.
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37 - Pendragon’s Winter Phase and feudal management mini-games subvert many rpg tropes so elegantly. Through the concepts of Glory and Legacy, the present almost becomes less important than the past and the future.
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38 - The act of gifting someone else dice is sacred and powerful.
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39 - The Iajutsu mini game in L5R is successful not necessarily in terms of mechanical balance, but in how it shifts the entire game world into “another realm” and everyone knows It Is On because quite literally The Rules Have Changed.
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40 - “Session zero” as a codified concept is superb, and of such critical importance that I feel non-tabletop games would benefit from implementing similar systems to communicate expectations with players.
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