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AbdulAlhazred reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Didn't you just a few pages back exclaim how much you love the term meta-agency? Yes, this was my point! I see the two things as being... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
Only in the continental United States regularly. He tries to get the rest of the world on a rotating basis. Last year was Europe, this...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Part of consent is agreeing to the premise of the game. Agreeing to play Apocalypse Keys includes consenting to play a game where will...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
OK? What does this have to do with point that imaginary things don't actually cause real events? According to the Wikipedia entry you...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right. I didn't describe any vessels as being present. Was that a good frame? Well, the player had no trouble at all declaring an...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to chaochou's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Player agency is a product of inviolable rules which a player knows and can rely on to achieve known goals. Its a product of all these...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Stating "you don't have as much agency as you might think you have" isn't diminishing your agency; it simply makes you feel as though...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My observation that fictional things don't have real world effects is simply that effects in the real world have real causes. And...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Correct. As the rules state quite clearly, the GM says "yes" when nothing is at stake. When a player's PC has the Belief I will bring...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is why, in talking about Burning Wheel, I've been focusing on the most important rules of the game: the statements of role and...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Can you clarify what RPGs you have in mind as "typical narrative-driven games". Obviously none of the ones that I, @Campbell and...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No one thinks it is impossible for the GM to make up ideas about the fiction, using plausibility as one heuristic. People do think that...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This logic applies in spades to the GM. At a practical level, sure some things the GM might say would be contradictory or absurd, but...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Over 45 years ago, Lewis Pulsipher described that sort of lottery play as low-agency RPGing. I think he was correct - the players...