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AAlViking reacted to Maggan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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No one knows. Or at least, it seems to me that there are several things being discussed at the same time. For a while it was the... -
AAlViking reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not mind control to hit my character with a sword but - unless the blow puts me down for the count or worse - it is mind control to...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, I pretty much hate remote gaming myself. Did the whole Roll20 thing for a while during COVID and it was just okay. Unfortunately...
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AAlViking reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Lack of movement =/= lack of agency over what a character thinks and feels. As for the players exercising mind control over the NPCs...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..To play devil's advocate to support a method I personally would not use: on either success or failure the door is unlocked. The sleight...
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AAlViking reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. The "successful" persuasion roll forces me to act out of character for my PC. That's mind control. That's not at all like an...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This is not a not general gaming forum, it's a D&D forum. So of course any technique you talk about people will assume you're...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How do you think I found the example? An example that did sort of make sense to me (which I thought I mentioned long, long ago) was a...
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AAlViking reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Whoever that was can't tell the difference between a character and a player, because all of that advice is about entertaining the...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..If you only ever use this concept in a PbtA game and never in a D&D game then I don't see how that it applies to D&D. The games have a...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..What strawman have I used? The example I got was from a blog. I was not the one that came up with it, I never said it was a good...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don't see an issue with a bit of wish fulfillment and playing out the fantasy of a character that is in control of their emotions when...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I was just trying to acknowledge that we're talking about a game. Maybe different games, different approaches, different preferences...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think it would be quite interesting for people on the opposite side of many discussions to get together and play couple of sessions...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..When I am setting up the scenarios I think the characters could face I am not being neutral. I'm trying to set up challenging and...