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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, no! @Old Fezziwig is secretly Vincent Baker, bald mustacheless Vincent Baker. ;) -
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 pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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This notion of radical difference is one that I don't accept. I mean, I was stumbling towards the sort of play that BW offers in 1986... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I never said you were a terrible person. I thought you were a decent poster until you kept trying to catch @pemerton up in some kind of...
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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. Upthread you asked what leads to the game producing intimate moments; what I could also describe as a type of intense focus on...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sure, but lets imagine I start endlessly picking on how, why, when, and under what circumstances XP awards are given in, say 5e. What...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Right, because you are interested in a game about these kinds of operational concerns, equipment, supplies, traps, doors, whatever, and...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No skin off my nose. I met him once, and he seemed like a nice guy, but I'm not beholden to his teachings.
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Do they? In Chainmail dragons simply had a bad effect on morale, much like heavy cavalry charging you. D&D included that rule, but it is...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, I have made no comment on this terminology. I understand what it intends to convey. But referring back to Gygax, he certainly...
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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 Like.
And, of course, TB is also a design by Crane and his collaborator, Thor Olavsrud. They use similar tech to very different ends, and I...
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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.
Since I think the "most important part" from that chain of replies is "play being organized around principles and focus, not tone and...
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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.
There are all sorts of things that fly in one game that would not fly in another. Creating a normative standard around what would fly in...
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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.
No one can really speak to individual games but Burning Wheel games will tend to be more personal and more intimate because the game...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Even more central, fictional characters are not links in causal relationships. Slenderman didn't do anything, and the idea of Slenderman...