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Cadence reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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No. Below average is below average. It is a statement about statistics, regarding some defined metric. "Good" and "bad" are... -
Cadence reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The short answer is that in statistics you would apply a range to what "normal" means based on a number of factors including acceptable...
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Cadence replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think the biggest misconception people have about the bell curve is thinking that here is any particular reason for most things to...
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Cadence reacted to gban007's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this highlights issue with DMG in general, that it sort of serves two purposes: 1. a guide to DMing which by its nature is best...
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Cadence reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For sure, some people are just tone deaf. I can usually forgive tone deafness when it comes from well-intentioned naivete, but when it's...
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Cadence replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I have to agree with @AlViking here that being slightly below average at something is not any definition of bad I have encountered...
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Cadence reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It would need to be multiple scales. You can't have "really boring," "throws OP foes and traps and then laughs when the party dies," and...
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Cadence replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I would posit that perpetuating or encouraging the idea that there is some construct "intelligence" that meaningfully encompasses lots...
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Cadence reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think there is a lot here. Something being a thought experiment does not inoculate it to moral scrutiny. Even "what ifs" can have...
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Cadence reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You might be able to get a ranking with a large enough pool of people rating, but that doesn't mean the rating would matter much to any...
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Cadence replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Given that the thread was arguing about what percent of them are "bad" and throwing around things like 20-25%, it didn't seem like that...
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Cadence reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Naw, I don't like that. It's not like calculating someone's score on a multiple-choice test. I may give the exact same DM a 12 that...
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Cadence reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It just comes down to where you put them on the bell curve and what the person making the decisions qualifies as "bad". I may value...
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Cadence replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It feels like there should be a 3-18 rating scale out there somewhere for DMs. How low on the scale would be "bad" as opposed to...
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Cadence reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To actually be constructive, advice should be more along the lines of: “With any social activity, there’s a chance that you’ll be...