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CreamCloud0 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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I was just being flippant. But I've read it now. Yesterday got away from me and I didn't have time to engage this thread actively. I'm... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It is poor DMing for producing the kind of gameplay I enjoy. I will accordingly not enjoy a game where someone runs it like that. That...
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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.
Do you think deciding to read something should in itself determine what that something means?
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..i would guess that, to my knowledge of them, it's because they're often used to (at the very least attempt to) manipulate or bypass the...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not seeing how this is all that different from a quantum superposition. Until the dice are rolled and result in known (i.e. the cat...
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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.
For the record, labeling the issues some folks have with presentation of material as "idiosyncrasies" comes off as demeaning, at least...
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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.
I was just curious how the DMG defines this, they would probably define it as Degrees of Failure. But every definition of fail forward...
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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.
We understand how it works, we just don't care for it.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Probably because the player's action itself wasn't the driving force, it was the die result, so it's more mechanics/system-driven.
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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.
I don't think this is right. It is meaningfully different because if the character improves in an unrelated skill, then in one case they...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think the contention stems from the fact that not only in their view should players affect the world in a Watsonian/diegetic manner...
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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.
A GM can never provide every single detail. I provide enough details so that the players can understand and make informed decisions...
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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.
And two comments I thought that revealed things in a particular salient way. @pemerton doesn't mean this positively, but I think it...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Complications come up in as many as a third of surgeries, and in surgeries that have complications, around 40% of those have multiple...
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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.
Wasn't the whole issue that PbtA doesn't have "you just fail" as an option?