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AAnotherGuy reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think the issue here is the difference between simple task adjudication and Narrativist 'fiction resolution'. Even in AW I'd like to... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't want to know as a player what my character does not know. There should be a reasonable chance to understand what the risks are...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I can't speak for others, but what I want is clear stakes. I want to know what I'm risking, what the potential rewards are, and how the...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not, and it illustrates a much more common pattern in Narrativist play. Hino sees a bunch of peasants being driven into an assault...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'd argue it certainly can. Now, if you have a fairly spread out set of options there, and there's some discussion of assigning them in...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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To be honest, I'm just taking other people's word for it that Australia is real. :) -
AAnotherGuy reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Absolutely! I played in a 2d20 game of Star Trek Adventures for a bit. I'm not a big Trek fan, so I wasn't crazy about the game... but...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is a good description of the difference. I want to feel like things I don't know matter and have weight, because it amplifies the...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But this of course simply kicks the bias up to a higher plane of abstraction: assigning the odds. Which is already a significant domain...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Ofc, you may have spotted a light beforehand coming from the kitchen or heard a sound, perhaps it is not the cook but a stable boy in...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not just that the stakes have been set, but more so that the lockpicking attempt has nothing to do with the cook. Being discretely...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..If you want to go to that level then assigning a DC reflects bias, right? I was referring to Fail Forward and Success with a...