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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Personally I think this is quite inaccurate as far as Apocalypse World is concerned. (I don't have any general view on "PbtA' as a... -
Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I would suggest that running roleplaying games in a conventional way comes with certain expectations and at least in the case of D&D...
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Campbell reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Over in the Daggerheart thread there's some folks talking about how awesome the GM Guidance in there is about how to run the game from...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I would expect that, given how different rules can be from one game to the next, it's more about the way to handle rules than specific...
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Campbell reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure. The problem is that some folks here use language that at least seems to try to shift the responsibility, and/or make it sound...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That same loose hand is what can often make play less certain for the players. 5e was designed loosely so that GMs could plug the gaps...
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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Oh I think our styles are fundamentally different, I was just pointing to some similarities. I'll dig in a bit deeper with a somewhat...
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Campbell reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Personally, I try to approach a given game in the spirit it was intended, even if it's not quite my thing. Not everyone does, and that... -
Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
See my comment about constantly being lumped in with the more narrative group just because I share a couple positions with them. The...
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Campbell reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
There's that reactionary pushback I was talking about. The irony is that I, the one who made that comment, not only don't think everyone...
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Campbell reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean some of the problems I see reported are clearly trying to force the design into pretzels where it performs poorly! But I’m...
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Campbell reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
I'll cop to being such a person. I hate rule of cool because I find it leads to a game that lacks consistency in tone and adjudication...
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Campbell reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's not an accurate description of what happens. What happens is that the player rolls well enough, and grabs the cup that others...
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Campbell reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'd say some systems are better at facilitating a sandbox than others, but it's a tool that you still need to know how to use...
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Campbell reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To be fair, the book itself points out a set of "GM Bad Habits" to watch out for that while not explicitly so, are more or less "hey...