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AAnotherGuy reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Decided in what way? Written down in some way? Included in some boxed text? Statted out as full fledged NPC? Is it not enough to... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
mostly it would be - because that's the particular game being played. Why should the Rogue being undetected while breaking into 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.
No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My favorite line on a 7-9 (success but complicated) is the roughly “the GM will present you with a lesser success, cost, complication...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ah, there's the problem. I avoid metagame as much as I can.
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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.
The "failure" is the metagame result of not meeting the target number, not so much the narrative result. I just thought of another fun...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But why is it called failure if you succeeded at what you were trying to do? It really seems like the wrong term to use.
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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.
If your issue is that fail forward means we're no longer in task resolution / sim mode, cool. You do you. An example of what fail...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But you are only considering circumstances in which it DOESN’T make sense. That is the point. If the situation was that a cook was...
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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.
Or to ask an even broader question, could you enjoy a trad-style game if you knew the DM was just making everything as they want along...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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When I run any of my games right now, if a PC “fails” a roll the first question in my head is: given the fictional circumstances and... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
PC: I'm going to try and pick the lock. AnotherGuy: Okay, the DC is 1-0-1-0-0.
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Out of curiosity - @pemerton @hawkeyefan and anyone else who is knowledgeable on this matter re Narrative games. Does Fail Forward play...
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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.
Kind of amazing how an example designed to make fail forward look ridiculous makes it look ridiculous. A much more artful version of the...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread EN World What you thought a thread title said. with Haha.
For just an instant, I thought a thread title said "Chance for a Werewolf?" Turns out that last word was actually "Warlord."