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Campbell reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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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.
More thoughts later, but DH expects that the characters are “protagonist-heroes in a story.”
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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 Like.
From the comments on the blog post:
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Screengrabs from the DPCGL ORC on modifications, revisions The DPCGL and ORC License are fundamentally different licenses for...
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Campbell reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is a fair question to ask. I would need to know more context about that Secret Door. i.e. did the party know or heavily suspect it...
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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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I don't think this is right at all. As @Campbell in this thread has pointed out, it's easy to have "simulationist" or "exploratory" play... -
Campbell reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah, I loved reading it...but if it were a supers game and I was a player? Yeah, no.
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Campbell reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In the initial example (which came from a website) there was no mention that the break-in took place at night. That detail was added later.
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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 Like.
To my mind, “telling a story” is how I’d describe the orientation of a session of Fiasco, or playing through a metaplot-heavy module of...
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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 Love.
No, then that would be crappy DMing, as we’ve all said. Once you establish something as true in the fiction, you’re supposed to build...
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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.
Perhaps it depends what is mean by "risk mitigation" and "maximising the chance of succeeding at longer-term goals". But what you say...
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Campbell reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I sort of agree to that theory, and that is why I would be careful to introducing the simulation term into the discurse. The problem is...
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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.
Aedhros is spiteful (he has the Spite attribute, being a Dark Elf) and self-deluded. He has a Belief that I will never admit I am wrong...
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Campbell reacted to Xetheral's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In the abstract, avoiding having "nothing happen" is a good thing because it has the decided benefit of helping prevent play bogging...
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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.
Listen, I don’t have any kind of problem with a random encounter. But it’s not any different. And your rolling ahead of time doesn’t...