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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
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You're playing a different game than I do. A character changing their knowledge of the runes wouldn't change what the runes mean which... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It’s not clear what you see established about the cleric before the persuasion check. If it’s just that this is a level 5 cleric that...
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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.
If you go reread the original runes example just posted this looks to be exactly what happened there. The player was lost and wanted the...
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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.
Contributing to the shared fiction is not sufficient to call something an rpg, else pass the conch would be an rpg. An RPG is about...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I just do not believe you're thinking this logically then. The player has the ability to dictate reality to solve the character's...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is an interesting claim. I want to examine it a bit closer. The player and character both recognise the runes. Both could...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is good example, as players having access to plenty of tactical information their characters wouldn't and then discussing it midst...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
They did though. And so does the GM in almost every RPG. No, that's called collaborative storytelling. It might be playing RPGs as...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Of course is different! The player operates under knowledge that they can dictate reality, the character does not. Like if you knew your...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not. They are just completely different things resulting different decision spaces. How is that hard?
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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.
If the player really isn’t authoring the runes meaning, why wasn’t this pointed out from the begginning? That’s been a huge part of the...
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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.
isn’t the whole point that on a success the player gets to author (create) the runes meaning? The character certainly isn’t authoring...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yet the player did. Thus the player and character decision spaces were divergent. Like I have been saying for pages and you keep...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
We use skills to settle what is not settled all the time. The difference is does the character have causal capability to settle the...
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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.
For the cleric example to be the same the following would need to be true 1) the fictional constraints on the cleric (who he is, what...