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Campbell 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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This is how I view the word usage. If the DM narrates the party seeing a patrol of orcs a few hundred yards ahead, the party has had an... -
Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't think the concepts are the same at all. The concepts used to understand how scenes/situations are presented to players in...
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Campbell reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries with Like.
If D&D shipped with custom/optional mechanics to fit a variety of different stories you might want to tell with the system instead of a...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Legend of the Five Rings, Fifth Edition is one of my favorite roleplaying games ever made (right up there with my group's Vampire hack...
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Campbell reacted to darkbard's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think this creates real problems in the hobby and it accounts for why we see seemingly erroneous understandings of certain games... -
Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My main interest in these sorts of discussions is clearly setting out techniques. It's from others clearly setting out techniques that I...
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Campbell reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The fiction might be why we play the game. I can imagine other reasons, too: fun, expressing system mastery, socialization, and so on...
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Campbell reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Mine was also high school theatre and a bit of out-of-school stuff; and unlike your groups ours tended to collaborate in silos - the...
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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 Like.
I've already mentioned upthread, I think, that between 1990 and 2008 (inclusive) I GMed two long-running RM campaigns. At the start of...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Mostly on stage, some backstage. High school drama club and community theater. My experience was very collaborative. Everyone taking...
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Campbell reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Wasn't it Edwards who pointed out that narrative and gamist agendas are pretty compatible? And yes, this sort of stakes setting serves...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..My groups have been quite unusual outliers here, but our trad games tend to be extraordinarily light on violent conflict and tend to...
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Campbell reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's a pretty excellent point. 2E, 3E, and 5E have all featured a lot of tracking of resources that aren't actually going to run out...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Opinions on flexibility of games that utilize daily resource refresh or other time-based resource refreshes are going to very much...
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Campbell reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If he was like, really struggling, and his books desperately needed art, I'd disagree with it but could forgive it. But frankly his...