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I feels this ties back to something @AlViking said upthread, where he believed that Trad-gamers try immerse themself into the character...
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If you want to be ever so slightly charitable, the failure caused the guard to harass our singer. I highly doubt that anyone narrates...
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You, @FrogReaver and @Maxperson are all asserting that I said or implied that I disliked D&D prior to 4e. @Faolyn is pointing out that...
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Oh, good grief, can we have an end to this whole "so and so said objectively" nonsense? As a rhetorical technique I now declare it dead...
Jun 16, 2025
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I just don't consider what you are saying here to be some sort of axiom of RPGs. Classic skill-test D&D certainly included some hidden...
Jun 16, 2025
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Okay. I’ll make sure to quote this in the future when you complain that people are inconsistent with their definitions! Any metric the...
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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...
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Yep, I only know it from your and other posters' accounts of your play, but this makes sense!
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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...
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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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For 3e? The stat blocks in the relevant monster manuals. Mobs are described here : Template - Mobs - sorry, don't have the original...
Jun 16, 2025
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Stonetop is pretty straightforwardly designed to be setting/exploration based narrativist play, which makes sense based on its 4e->DW...
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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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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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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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