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Crimson Longinus 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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Whether or not something is a simulation is not based on the simulation's accuracy. -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In 5e surprised based entirely in established play. It seems like @pemerton doesn't really understand the 5e surprise rules, either.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is incorrect. Hit points simulate durability in combat. Let's say that I am in a fist fight with someone. I might throw a...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Then why does one lose hit points through discrete effects? And why do those effects cause differing amounts of damage/hit point loss...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The thing is, I'm pretty sure most people here would rather hear your view than the view of some guy (since you've quoted a lot of guys)...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Best I can tell, @pemerton views GM-created as synonymous with GM-driven, where others view a distinction.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think there's a little more than that going on. Your example above uses goal essentially as a clarifying question about the situation...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I just don't see it. It always comes back to "I'm imagining a world, and filtering it through these rules for players to interact with"...
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Crimson Longinus 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 see how this whole conversation suggests an unwillingness to try new things. The goal of play seems pretty clearly defined imo...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
From discussion here and elsewhere, simulationism seems to label game play characterised by i) giving the imagined world precedence and...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Every game has abstractions. Simulations do not recreate complex systems with 100% accuracy, a supercomputer could not perfectly model...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But on a success, they are not deciding not to open the door because someone is there...it just turns out that no one is there. I went...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
the point is competent people 'make their own luck' by making different choices and taking different actions which have better odds of...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Unless you're playing a game where the rules tell you that a complication happens on a failure. In those games the world is not...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yea. There’s alot of nuance here and we are just scratching the surface. And it’s also different for each person. But we aren’t trying...