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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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Is your front door in a dangerous location where there may be monsters on either side of it? Edit: I decided to go into a bit more... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, the real problem here is the richness of the world being described being vastly, almost unimaginably, less than reality. In...
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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.
Common sense in life. Forget play for a minute and think about how things work in the real world. If you forget to pick up milk at the...
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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.
It's also silly from the point of view of philosophy of action and causation. A post of mine from a few years ago makes the point...
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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 post of yours made me think straight away of this from Edwards: Consider the previous example of a group who has arrived at the...
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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.
Because we’re talking about consequences. There are probably going to be at least a few, and potentially many, depending on so many...
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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.
Edwards wrote this over 20 years ago: [Social Contract [Exploration [Creative Agenda --> [Techniques]]]]. The panoply of Techniques...
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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 think your example, of the PCs in the library, is something that would come up in exploratory-oriented play (say, "substantial...
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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.
Whereas I have. Not often, but it's happened. And we heard Lanefan talk about examples that have happened at his table. So it happens...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Actually, a little elaboration is useful here. The problem of what is enough progress or evolution of situation is not unique to...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That's fair enough. I think, personally this is a good reason to want a substantively goal/intent adjudication mechanism. It's pretty...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Right, but obviously if that is the standard, then the bar is set below ground level! Every check ever will count as forward progress...
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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.
Because like I said, the GM will never be able to provide the amount of information that would be available to the character. For the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Fair enough, but I think I am suggesting that there's little, if any, difference between us in how much we are in character. But this is...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'll go a bit further with it. One of the primary purposes of ability scores, alignment, BIFTs, and then on into the more robustly...