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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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I've never heard of a GM running a model. And on its own, imagining isn't modelling. I mean, the Knights of the Iron Tower - the order... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think @thefutilist was pointing to how clocks are used in AW front/threat design (and I think DW is similar): as part of their binding...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
@zakael19 answered a lot of this already. Here's some small snippets from the book that point toward the general attitude. In order...
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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
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I think this correction is suggesting a more derogatory use of murderhobo than I intend. As I understand it (thanks, Wikipedia!)... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I refuted that one years ago. PCs go around from town to town looking for odd jobs, staying in one place for only a short time. They're...
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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.
You made the decision to not have orcs in your fantasy setting. That’s not a judgment. It’s not a normative statement. It’s just a...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Is this an either or scenario with sandboxes? When it’s my turn to DM I run my homebrew world. I know ahead of time how different...
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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.
If some sandboxes have DMs who shape aspects of the setting around player decisions, and other sandboxes have DMs who don’t do that...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Exit light, enter night; take my hand, we're off to Never-Never Land. But Never-Never Land does not exist any more than the Forgotten...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The playing to find out that happens in Apocalypse World is, however, qualitatively different from that which happens in classic OSR...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Contextual. But, to be more specific than that, even though it requires me to speak in generalities that may not be perfectly ironclad...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Striving for impartiality - play to find out what happens Pinning down details before choices are made - clocks Letting players trash...
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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 Haha.
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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.
I'm not belittling anyone's processes. I'd just like people to describe them, instead of using ellipsis and metaphor like "the world...
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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.
Imagined things don't exist. Full stop. There are no unicorns, no dragons, no hyperstellar space freighters, etc. We can imagine such...