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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
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Verisimilitude. Sometimes bad things, things we don't want, happen anyway. If you're exploring a world that operates in many ways... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Can A Spell Caster Out Damage a Martial Consistently? with Like.
IMO. It says absolutely nothing about the High Level Martial / Caster divide. PvP is not PvE. To get a true comparison he should have...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Fully agreed. There definitely sounds like some desire to have one's cake and eat it too, here, from those waving the "player agency"...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt? with Like.
There is so much that is either nonsensical or anachronistic in D&D, I don't see how a belt lantern is any worse than any of the rest of...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A PC was negotiating with NPCs in Sigil. One of the NPCs used Detect Thoughts which allows one to pick up surface thoughts for free...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt?.in the interest of not making the martial alternative to a cantrip vastly inferior yes you can wear them on your belt, however things...
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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..maybe if TBIF were actually used it would be able to mitigate DMs 'forcing' PCs to act out of character, you establish something in your...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Why would you not just have a quiet word with the DM if the DM is making you do something you absolutely couldn't see your character...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Again, you never allow players to persuade an NPC to do something they would never do, so, why are you allowing an NPC to do it? If the...
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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.
Seems to me this has circled back around to the example from (was it this thread or another?) regarding a teetotal character being...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That is flat out untrue. Since the check will not make the PC do something that the character would never do, your "no agency at all"...
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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.
This is where we differ. Sure there can be an open third-story window but I want there to be that very important intervening step where...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Again though, let's not get too far into the weeds. We're not talking about "ways". We're talking about a single way. Same as a social...
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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 Like.
That's my point though; you've already accepted that in that situation a roll may make your character behave in a way you think is...
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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 Like.
But you get that's a personal taste thing, right? I can probably say without too much loss of generality there's a lot of people out...