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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 just recently re-read the first three books of the Nightrunner Series, every dang roguish moment either happens as narration (he... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Don't overplay this too much. I've, for example, played in a few PbtAs GMed by @Manbearcat. I feel pretty sure he'd be HAPPY in the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..IMHO there was almost nothing that changed between original D&D through AD&D 2e, they're fairly modest variants and updates of basically...
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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.
No, it's about what failure means for play. My players fail to get their full intent all the time. We had a crap ton of 6-s rolled last...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
"Your weapon belt snags on a sharp rock and you watch in horror as your blade falls with a clang to the bottom." Or, same idea, but the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Right. I just see, mechanically, a slight variant of d20 almost straight out of 3.5e. Saves are translated into defenses, and...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think the conservatism also shows in the description of "It was certainly a pretty radical departure of design from what came before...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think it is worth mentioning that GNS was NEVER about people, or games, it was about PLAY. Even in that sense its author has since...
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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 think this captures my feeling on the subject as well, both as a player and as a GM. As a player, I don't see or feel any difference...
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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 Like.
And we're saying that there is absolutely no difference between one completely arbitrary die roll resulting in an encounter and another...
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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 reiterated the imagined instance of play of Apocalypse World, where the PC breaks into Dremmer's storeroom and encounters Pattycakes...
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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've noticed a certain trend in this discussion that, when it comes to identifying features of D&D, combat doesn't count. There is a...
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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.
This is contentious. In the way PCs are built - stats, feats, the components of a character's "race" - is heavily derived from 3E D&D...
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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 @Campbell, but you can see my answer to these questions in my reply to him not very far upthread: D&D General - [rant]The...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It may not be very prevalent today in games like DW2e (which is pure OC/neo-trad exhibit my character curated arc play from what I can...