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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Except here you are still left standing in front of the locked door. When we say that the situation has changed, it's a material change... -
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It is talking about succeeding or failing on a roll. Also, there is an assumption in most of the posts on this thread that all that is... -
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The character can know it: by reading the runes! They don't know in advance, but nor does the player. Both are hoping. Turning to AW...
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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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This is true - to the extent that it is - of all RPGing. I mean, it's all just "narrative dressing", that is, establishing shared... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not sure where this stipulation of "fail forward" is coming from. "Fail forward" means that, on a failed roll/throw/check/test, the...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, I think that the sorts of goals and how they relate to the setting matters. BitD has a setting, but the entire focus is on the...
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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...
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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 Like.
... The problem with this logic is it doesn't recognize that managing the metacurrancy is, itself a game. Its never unlimited, so...
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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...