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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The primary anachronism is that magic works, it's reliable and widespread enough to have standardized spells and schools. Yet we still...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I've occasionally had campaign arcs (in multiple editions) where relatively low level monsters get juiced up and go berserk. They have a...
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AAlViking reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think this is the root of the problem: it's a faulty design goal. Instead, the goal should have been to just design the monsters and... -
AAlViking reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You see a feature where I see a bug. "Contextual challenges" do two bad things: they play hell with in-fiction consistency, and they...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..From previous posts you like narrative conceits driving play for more than I do. If I want enemies that they can kill left and right I...
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AAlViking reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Fair enough. Personally I tend to give "Rule of Cool" a lot less credit in games than I do in stories.
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4.If I paid for HBO I wouldn't want to watch The Sopranos either. It's just a question of preference. I don't want to be buddies with...
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AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4.I know I'm probably an outlier here but while I enjoyed BG 3, I don't feel any particular draw to play it again. I don't care for the...
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AAlViking reacted to Blue's post in the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4 with Like.
Actually, Larian really screwed up the tone, but the players revolted. BG3 was so successful is solely down to the fans. What Larian...
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AAlViking reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General WotC: 'Of Course We're Going To Do' Baldur's Gate 4 with Like.
Beyond would suggest otherwise, also the runaway hit that is Arena. They have several full video game studios that they are sinking...
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AAlViking reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't know why 4e fans keep injecting later interpretations and personal opinions about the SC rules into a discussion specifically...
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AAlViking reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This last statement is pretty judgy. "Some people accept that I'm right about this, but some are still wrong". Not a very accepting and...
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AAlViking reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Make sense. But you are not as opposed to the minion approach if it doesn't mean the stats of the monster change depending on who is... -
AAlViking replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I remember the devs acknowledging a while back that development time was far shorter than what they had wanted, that powers were meant...
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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.
Your math is off. It wouldn't take 20 townsfolk to kill a single ogre before all being killed. They'd take it out in 1 round on...