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AAnotherGuy reacted to Xetheral's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Rather than characterize Fail Forward as a "recommendable principle in traditional play - with a lower priority than the principle of... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ah, not seeing a trap makes sense. It's almost never two party members falling, it's one party member climbing to the top and dropping...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I can see the pitons and climber's kit and someone didn't secure one of them tight enough and one dude drops as the loose piton/s reveal...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Good question. So falling down in D&D would be d6 per 10 feet with the requirement to making an additional climb check. So a soft move...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A while ago I saw someone on another forum comment that RM does the Forgotten Realms better than D&D. I have never had any interest in...
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AAnotherGuy 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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If "standing around looking at each other" is what typically happens after a whiffed task then those players really need to learn how to... -
AAnotherGuy reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
When it comes to the classic inspirational literature, my gold standard for climbing urban walls to sneak into somewhere important is...
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AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That soft move would likely assign some mechanical penalties as well not just colour consequence. Particularly in a game like D&D where...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I want to segway this into something I have been thinking quite a bit about lately. How to feel out what players expect to happen. It is...
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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 Haha.
Oh, loss is fascinating. That's totally different then whiffing on a task and then standing around looking at each other.
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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.
@pemerton One area that Eero Tuovinen really fails to grasp at when it comes to simulation (and I think this has been a general...
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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
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Is there? You've never made room for such a distinction before. Why is it suddenly relevant now? And would you seriously not think that... -
AAnotherGuy replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Fair. I was just shocked at how quickly he opened it. PC went off the road to investigate something, found himself in a ditch (failed...
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AAnotherGuy reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Maybe not insulting per se, but there's an overwhelming sense of someone talking down a very long academic nose to the uneducated masses...
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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.
"storygames versus traditional versus OSR" seems simpler and more effective in practice. Less ambitious taxonomies like "rules-light...