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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I'd find it interesting to examine some examples.
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Well if a hypothetical you were interested in that type of stuff happening then you could create characters and setting that made it far...
Thursday at 7:41 PM
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Wanting sole authorship of the character you play's inner world, emotions and the like is fine preference to have. So is a shared...
Thursday at 12:00 AM
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I think we can all call upon stories where this has happened in real life without any magic involved, though. It's quite common for...
Wednesday at 11:59 PM
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I'll outright say that there are mechanical elements of D&D that I think a large number of other games just handle better. I just don't...
Wednesday at 11:58 PM
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The very first 2 pages of Dungeon World tell everyone exactly what the game is about. The first couple of sections make it pretty clear...
Wednesday at 7:12 PM
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Yeah I never got that. It's just a way of structuring a sequence of events that form a coherent unit of play into one 'game'. The...
Wednesday at 7:03 PM
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I don't know what you intend by "fail forward at a mechanical level". The mechanical level is rolling some dice and identifying a...
Wednesday at 4:59 PM
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If the GM rolls a NPC's to hit die, and it succeeds, that dictates stuff about how my PC behaved: did I dodge? was I taken in by the...
Wednesday at 4:57 PM
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Yeah, an SC is an encounter worth of play, complexity 5 might need 14 rolls to resolve. Even at 5 minutes each it's an hour of play. So...
Tuesday at 5:24 PM
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Just from conversing with them over the years, I know @pemerton and @Manbearcat are often in agreement but also have different styles of...
Monday at 10:22 PM
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I simply don't see that as a problem. I see that as good design. I find the game more interesting when my role is to depict the...
Monday at 10:20 PM
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Oh yes we are! (Granting I'm not sure who you are referring to). Soft pedalling failure and coddling players is just crappy play! You...
Monday at 8:31 PM
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I have no problem with @EzekielRaiden example either. Such examples could be great play or not based on other aspects, but in general I...
Monday at 6:43 PM
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I think there is no game text that is going to both present a generalized RPG, as most of us would recognize it, and not be open to some...
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