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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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And "don't be a weasel" comes from Mouse Guard. And is also affirmed in the BW Adventure Burner. There is a degree of... -
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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We could classify the trad GM’s process as quantum as well. That until he writes that the Amulet of Agonar is in the chest in Room 8, it... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But this makes everything that is unknown "quantum superposition"! Which is not what quantum superposition is. I mean, I don't know -...
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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.
Why does the testimony of @Firebird outweigh that of @AbdulAlhazred, or any other poster in this thread, as to what is "likely"? No...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this more effectively explain the issue with your reasoning: I got a similar vibe from @Campbell 's exelent post a while back...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I OTOH am not understanding a distinction. Either way the GM made fundamentally the same calculation, that a map would be fun. In both...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think this brings us closer to an understanding. Dungeon World repeatedly admonishes the participants, especially the GM, to speak to...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Agreed, they can be a form of control of the story. They're, interestingly not generally a part of Narrativist play (and I am happy to...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yet there are other, different, people who find those games to be too "boardgamey". The variance in perception is kinda wild.
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I've always found it weird that metacurrencies are considered a narrative mechanic. Their meta-narrative nature always distinguished...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The problem is that it not only abstracts it, but in ways that spit up counterfactuals if you press on it at all hard. AC only works in...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm not sure Watsonian vs Doylist is the same thing as Trad vs Narrativist. Our play is as much 1st person reasoning as the character as...
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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.
I don't know, really. I have asked people to share examples of this Doylist influence a player has that would be specific to narrativist...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..First of all, there's a somewhat different attitude towards characters and roles. Trad play is fundamentally rooted in a competitive...
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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.
Absolutely not. "There is an iceberg ahead" is only a complication if the person at the helm doesn't know how to pilot their ship. The...