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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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I mean, yea? If you want to pre-establish stuff, then fail forward techniques might be less useful because you have less freedom to... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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That one made me think of my first solo criminal case. My defendant was charged with a drug offense- his first run-in with the law- and... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Battlemaster and Superiority Dice are causing martials to suffer. with Like.
3e and Pathfinder have a ton of special actions all warriors can take. Disarm, Sunder, Trip, and (in PF1), things like push, drag...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Tales and Chronicles's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Battlemaster and Superiority Dice are causing martials to suffer. with Like.
I'd take inspiration from some old UA feats that allowed special weapon tricks when you had Advantage and you gave up on the 2nd d20 to...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You know you've reached quality discussion when we are arguing about the location of the imaginary cook's quarters in the imaginary...
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AMurdock is my favorite, mostly because I'm fond of Dwight Schultz's performance (and his other work too; many appearances throughout...
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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 don’t think that’s true. The cook may not be statted or planned previously, but it exists as a concept just like the millions of...
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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.
@pemerton just to share Daggerheart's specific guidance for your note, it calls the "narrating failure as your PC sucking ass" out under...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Man this conversation moves fast. The way I see random encounters, the NPC's don't appear from nowhere- they're present in the area...
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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 Like.
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...
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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...