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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
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What if the GM embodies the setting, but the Players set their own goals? Is that possible from your perspective? -
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 think it is can be equally true if someone else authors that part of the fiction, but it depends a lot on how the fiction is authored...
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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
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I've come to believe you can't evaluate agency, in the sense of gameplay, without explaining the goal and the evaluation of victory... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
It might be better to pick a different one. There are clearly two different conceptions of agency...and both sides think their method...
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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.
I'm not seeing how this is all that different from a quantum superposition. Until the dice are rolled and result in known (i.e. the cat...
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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.
As apprehensive as it makes me to throw the term into any of these conversations... This is exactly why I've pushed for a mechanical...
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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'm drawing a parallel between dismissals of player guided exploration as "mere color" and the no true Scottsman dismissal of...
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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.
A simple question then: BitD is best when players are choosing their own objectives (as opposed to a GM-provided goal), but the GM is...
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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.
I think the contention stems from the fact that not only in their view should players affect the world in a Watsonian/diegetic manner...
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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.
And two comments I thought that revealed things in a particular salient way. @pemerton doesn't mean this positively, but I think it...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If a player declare their character climb a cliff, and resolution indicate they succeed on this task, then indeed the character will...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Not sure about this. You could have a pretty simulative game come out of designing a setting then turning the players loose for...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think the real issue here is: people's brains work differently (but people assume that everyone else's brain works the same as theirs...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Gladiator: The Narrative Dissonance with Like.
Why would you say that? You are representing those in-fiction abilities as game mechanics.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay? with Like.
So on the subject of rolling for scores as opposed to point buy (standard array), I think that one aspect of it is being missed...