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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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Naw, I'm not offended (we're talking about TTRPGs on the internet and you're not telling me I suck at running the game I've been devoted... -
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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It would have been great if an experienced Burning Wheel GM had been posting for the past many pages that "fail forward" is a label for... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to chaochou's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
i don't know how you live with yourself and your quantum windows. Madness. The open / closed / locked / jammed / broken state of all...
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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.
I'm not sure why it was used as an example in the linked article. I think it's a terrible example because it lacks the greater context...
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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 Haha.
I don't think anyone would! Because choices determined by someone other than the player would, of necessity, not be the player's.
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A thought I'm having on the fail forward discussion; is this a division of responsibility question? Setting aside the tools they have to...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, where I see a problem is when things are decided in a way which subverts player's choices. The old 'quantum ogre' which appears...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Decign and principles are hard. If this principle as formulated here the game "Flip a coin whenever you are unsure" would be more...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Then I am simply jumping off your point. This whole notion of "quantum" encounter is just more smoke and mirrors trying to pretend... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I love tables like the ones in Stonetop that are the start of something appropriate for the region or site in question, but are meant to...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It seems exactly like that kind of case to me? I get the cook wasn't introduced at the same moment the hard move occurs, but making the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I just didn't find, in practice, that all that much really WAS set out ahead of time, or really could be extrapolated from what was set...
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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.
Just so we're all clear: managing risk and avoiding obstacles are not the only dimensions of meaning that are possible in RPGing. In...