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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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The fact that something is a revelation to a person - that could be a film, a piece of technology, a vista, a romantic relationship... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yep, I only know it from your and other posters' accounts of your play, but this makes sense!
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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
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Well, no… the quotes were around the “metagame”… a concept that makes no sense for those games. It’s all part of the game. Insert a... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..4e is really just the culmination of a trend of design in the 3e era. Not only do later 3.5 supplements clearly experiment with systems...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For 3e? The stat blocks in the relevant monster manuals. Mobs are described here : Template - Mobs - sorry, don't have the original...
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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.
Stonetop is pretty straightforwardly designed to be setting/exploration based narrativist play, which makes sense based on its 4e->DW...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, the problem with 3.5 (3e generally) is that it is NOT a highly organized exception system with good generalized subsystems. It gets...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right, but the fact is, they existed. The concept that a creature could have different stats depending on who it was fighting and who...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I personally found the AW advice to be crystal clear. I think it is fine to say that AW doesn't care that much. Like, you can follow its...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Let's suppose a game, let's call it a PbtA, where the interest is centered outside the characters. That is, while the action is still...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Mechanically the changes are pretty straightforward. As I said in another post, the real change is in attitude towards the players...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I gotta say, AW is pretty strong about wanting things to stay in character, and DW is also rather explicit here. But that being said...
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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.
"Optimizing the fiction" to shape the outcome range is definitely part of what I see as fiction-first gameplay, for the games that bring...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Ok, but 'process of play' is the thing you are designing! By explicitly focusing, like a laser on that as the base level of game design...
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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.
Well, yes. I'm not talking about playing OSR or anything in its realm where "the solving of problems via player skill" is a significant...