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- adjective of a game Not requiring
dice .
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Examples
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Star Frontiers, Red Box D&D, and AD&D, almost always DM, with some diceless, PvP, and single player action mixed in there.
My RPG DNA, Part 2: The Early Memphis Years « Geek Related 2010
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This epic novel introduced the Fifth Age of Krynn's history and severed its ties to the D&D game, with a new, diceless RPG rules system called Saga introduced to carry the roleplaying side of things forward, whilst other writers wrote new novels.
The Worlds of D&D: Dragonlance Adam Whitehead 2009
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The rules are diceless, "narrativist" and very simple.
February 26th, 2007 curufea 2007
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For diceless games, while I have several trenchant complaints about Erick Wujcik's diceless Amber system, the system itself is so elegant, simple, and portable that the game recommends itself to anyone who can find a trustworthy moderator.
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HardNova 2, Coyote Trail, EarthAD 2, Mean Streets, and Ghostories for low-cost, ready-to-play entertainment; Active Exploits Diceless for universal diceless roleplaying with that familiar
D / RPG News pigames.net 2010
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HardNova 2, Coyote Trail, EarthAD 2, Mean Streets, and Ghostories for low-cost, ready-to-play entertainment; Active Exploits Diceless for universal diceless roleplaying with that familiar
D / RPG News pigames.net 2010
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Precis Intermedia's current game lines include HardNova 2, Coyote Trail, EarthAD 2, Mean Streets, and Ghostories for low-cost, ready-to-play entertainment; Iron Gauntlets for customizable heroic fantasy gaming; Active Exploits Diceless for universal diceless roleplaying with that familiar 'dice' feel;
theRPGSite 2008
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(So my first D&D experience was both diceless and PvP, two things that people nowadays don’t believe can happen or is wicked and evil …) It was vaguely entertaining, and I had all the Star Frontiers stuff they had put out, so I got the D&D Red Box soon after it came out and decided I loved it as well!
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Several semi-diceless RPGs by Joe Williams and Marquee Press, incluyding Lost Souls and Legendary Lives, are available freely on the author’s website.
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That’s sort of true, but I for one do like the random, honest, unforeseeable element that throwing the dice brings and GMs are just human, and very suspectible to bribes and coercion in deciding who can do what in diceless game ;) ).
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