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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I look at clocks in Blades in the Dark. They tick, but they do so at the DMs whim because he can always choose a non clock tick...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I’ve never understood this and it’s from 2 perspectives. 1. You advocate for a technique where any 1 of hundreds of die rolls could...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Further to a discussion several hundred posts upthread about DMs revealing hidden information when it doesn't matter any more, this just...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Nice to see how you're always able to bring it back to "GM making any decisions = GM making all important decisions = bad play".
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CreamCloud0 reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is well stated and true, to some extent. But I think there is a difference between the GM saying the bar has a barmaid because they...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Are you saying the quantum cook wouldn't happen? It's right there in the example.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You could fail to climb it. You could conceivably injure yourself (I've certainly done that trying to climb a wall). It is inherently an...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Because the roll is about trying to climb a wall (presumably using a metric related to climbing), not why you're climbing a wall. That's...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The important thing in the scene might be saving your friend but there's a major obstacle en route to arriving at said scene, namely the...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right--and because you're avoiding nonsensical results, jumping back in time to gather herbs impose constraints. You can't have anything...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
An example of fail forward from Failing Forward – RPG Concepts for failing to pick a lock. "Failing forward is the idea that you still...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's what was defined as fail-forward. You succeed at the task but something bad happens.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Because the example had no predefined time pressure. The example was "Because the character failed their climb check, something bad...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The background knowledge that interesting things are always going to happen makes the test outcomes feel more similar. It matters less...