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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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Sure, the possibility for abuse is there, but it's never come up for me. Setting aside the usual ways that one might handle bullying... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I apologize if you found my jumping-off from your humor inappropriate. Can you truly blame me for using your reference, which cites a...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Hmmmm, interesting. So all this kind of got me thinking. There IS a way to get around the points you just made. That is by simply making...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Guest 85555's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I am not responding to the rest of the posts here, but just from personal experience I would say a lot of fear has a strong physical...
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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.
Huh? What is fidelity to what has gone before - which of course is something that the GM authored - but adhering to a vision?
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Play to Find Out can, IME describe two related things. One is simply playing to find out what happens in a narrative sense. Does Skyler...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Idk, I can comfortably say that I make decisions in my game(s) in keeping with the agenda and principles of play, and when I reflect on...
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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 is missing this. What they are saying is that (i) it's often very far from clear how a person is "supposed" to act; and (ii) if...
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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.
If your authorial output is the product of your mental model, the authorial output is not itself a model of anything. I mean, suppose...
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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 Like.
No, not at all. I’m surprised that’s what you took away from my post. My point is that the world doesn’t actually react, the GM makes...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Right. I personally, not to harsh on it, just find the sort of endless long-winded setting exploration play that is my experience with...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Cromulent prose, nicely evocative. Anyway, this is a good point. I make another point that goes with it but is slightly different. That...
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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.
Here's a little story I just wrote: The child walked through the park, and came to an embankment. She thought it would be fun to roll...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean Dolmenwood is a pretty darn incoherent/implausible setting but an amazing sandbox! It’s full of magical mushroom faeries, doors...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think you would be amply rewarded by actually playing something like Dungeon World or better yet Apocalypse World, with some people...