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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
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I will perhaps get to some other comments tomorrow. But I've got time for just one or two. I want to look at the lottery comparison... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No man. It has been said time and time again in this thread that fail forward moves the story forward, but the specific task can be...
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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.
Would it have been a valid DM decision in light of the hope and positive result, for the DM to decide that the hope was not realized?
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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.
It started with being unconnected/distantly connected man. That's not a change.
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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.
Except that it's not. No it doesn't. Control over everything else doesn't force specific timing. It just doesn't. Your math works...
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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.
Sure, and those are the minority of complications. Skill does play a part in those, but most of the time complications crop up...
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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.
You don't get to make it irrelevant, though. To a lot of us it's very relevant. You can that you don't find it relevant, but that's...
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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.
On the fly =/= added retroactively, though. If I narrate to the group that the cliff face is rough and made of decaying granite...
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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.
That's truly amazing syntactical jujitsu. They didn't decide because they had to succeed is totally different from me saying they...
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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.
I haven't played any myself, but I've seen narrative folks here describe player authoring in ways like the party coming to a new city...
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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 agree it had to be reasonable in context, but the player is obviously aware of that so they made a reasonable request. But they still...
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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.
It's as player-driven as real life, and I do not want to play a game where you have more power than that which such a person in the...
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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.
After a success the GM decided to give the player exactly what they wanted. Therefore because of a good roll the player decided what...
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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 me the purpose of play, ideally, is to explore and interact with an imaginary world through the lens of my PC, using only the...
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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.
The player said "I want this to be X", made a successful roll so it was X. They had to succeed on a check but they did they got the...