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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with
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There is an established idea that adventuring strongly "fast-tracks" the leveling process over anything else a person might do with... -
CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..see, i wouldn't call that deceptive railroading due to being so barefaced about it, deceptive railroading IMO would more be the 'quantum...
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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.
Exactly, thus the principle of an independent world negating railroading.
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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.
Sorry, but having events happen independent of characters doesn’t make something a railroad. There seems to be some major conflation...
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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.
As long as the players voluntarily stay on the tracks it’s not a railroad. The moment a dm intervenes to keep them on the tracks, 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.
He can’t do that unless the world reacts to the players choices to always reinforce his story. That is it’s not an independent world.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with Like.
Actually, I wouldn't limit that to "old school players". IME, most players of any providence ignore such things in play.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with
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I'm pretty sure a thousand year old elf is a lot more alien to a human than a goliath is, yet old school players never object when... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think the notion of wearing a body camera is an apt analogy. There’s a large preexisting independent world out there. If you want to...
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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.
Well if the world is truly being invented independent of players/characters (save what the characters can actually impact 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.
Good grief. If the character is fighting an orc, we resolve whether the attack is successful by rolling dice. In the runes case it's...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't agree that establishing the details of an imaginary world equates to railroading. To me, railroading entails something like...
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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.
Yes. The farrier was always there. I just forgot to put him into place. The players reminded me when they asked, so I added him in...
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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.
The player didn't determine anything there. Nor did the PC. The DM establishing/setting/determining the reality is not unusual in a...
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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.
Not at all. It's nothing like combat. Nothing is undermined because it's all in the present. We determine attackers. We determine...