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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..There is no 'setting' in AW, it's a purely Zero Myth game, beyond identifying a genre (post apocalypse). Player's choices of play book... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm not so sure. I mean, I agree that's the simplest level of play, but let's imagine I'm playing DW, and I'm fleeing from some terrible...
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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
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... The problem with this logic is it doesn't recognize that managing the metacurrancy is, itself a game. Its never unlimited, so... -
AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah I stand corrected. In DW bonds are written during the session wrap up, along with allocation of XP for certain things, and leveling...
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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.
It depends on what those aspects are and what game they're in. And if the PC can create aspects, then that does not contradict with...
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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 term that Edwards used in a video a few years ago is "furniture" (vs "people"), which I think gets at something in the neighbourhood...
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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.
I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success the...
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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.
Yeah wasn’t including you there, just grousing about how often I see people who should know better making assumptions not that different...
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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.
Have you ever described a player, in D&D, who rolls a successful attack as having decided that they hit their oppoinent? Have you ever...
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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.
Also the non-ghost player is decidedly not “fit!” The expected outcome is generally “eaten by ghost.” For some additional context to...
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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.
No, the GM decided based on the idea the player expressed as the hope of their character… which was reasonable and didn’t contradict...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The authoring of fiction in Narrativist play is quite structured, in general. For example in DW the 'blacksmith scenario' could proceed...
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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.
GNS is about characterising play, and the suitability of RPGs for various sorts of play. Whether you think the three categories are...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Right, so 4e is of course a bit different from BW in that it's not specifically adjudicating intent at the level of a specific check. It...
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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 that 4e D&D is a variant of D&D. And "fail forward" is a key idea in 4e D&D, especially skill challenge resolution. And Burning...