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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
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I’m not sure I understand how these techniques are analogous at all? A clock can be used to measure the progress of a variety of things... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don't agree with this. I think that, granted I've never played BW itself, just TB2e and Mouseguard, it would be a violation of the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But again, think of X as an affordance, not unlike a tool. I used my imagination to picture a world in which X is manifest (the nature...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, I suspect that play would veer off in directions that were dictated by plausible events that arise out of the hidden backstory of...
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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.
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...
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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.
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...