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AbdulAlhazred reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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The problem with “IC-authenticity” as a play virtue is that it’s completely unprovable that anyone actually does it. Any declared... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You'd at least need a sharply finite number of possible answers for it to be useful.
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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.
A slight elaboration on the above reply to @clearstream: It can't be true both that Baker's rejection of big model analysis is correct...
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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.
Not really. It's a turn of phrase. The whole clause is: "when you-as-player get proactive about an emotional thematic issue, poof...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Very true. Which is why "it doesn't work" doesn't work--it doesn't involve the GM giving hints, changing the puzzle in some way, or...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think we need a middle ground here. As an engineer I need to understand the requirements for a thing, and the wider context of its...
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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.
For me, I think the abundance of information of information makes me feel as informed as my character would be. It’s not necessarily...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, this is a very good point. Nobody is entirely in character. You are rolling dice, and listening to narration, and going around the...
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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.
They weren't big deal changes in terms of how radical they were (abandoning the 6 stats, using a dice pool instead of a d20, no classes...
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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.
He doesn't seem to think so, at least not to the point of saying he disliked them. Maybe 1e-3e didn't give him what he felt should have...
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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.
The sense of being there, in character, is deeply important to me (like maybe most important thing at times). However, that also...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
He... didn't say objectively. I went back over the past 15 pages ago and he never said that word. He said they needed to be firebombed...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To be clear, seeing your character as an avatar doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what game you play. I assume different...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think the problem is, who can say what would have happened in a situation, a REAL WORLD situation, that didn't happen. Lets imagine...