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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
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The problem I'm having with your way of playing is that there are billions of NPCs out there and I cannot know more than a very small... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You can't just arbitrarily change the scope. The player has only 1 PC and has lost control over 100% of the characters he controls...
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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.
No. The "successful" persuasion roll forces me to act out of character for my PC. That's mind control. That's not at all like an...
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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.
How is it good design to have your ability to make decisions about your characters actions taken away from you because of die rolls...
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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.
You keep conflating the dice telling the result of somethin with the dice forcing the character to do something. The dice don't tell...
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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.
There is no double standard here, because those things are not equivalent with decision making. As a warrior I decide when and who to...
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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 problem then is that you want consistent rules for something that, as you say, isn't consistent. Trauma--long term type trauma...
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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 problem is that rules like morale or Persuasion checks is that they make people play not in character. They have to run away because...
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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.
So fail-forward is about railroading? Of course that's not what you mean, but pursuing dramatic narrative has been observed to be in...
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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.
Where is this projection coming from? Or am I mistaken and someone did say that? If so prove me wrong. Quote one person here who has...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is a wild claim. It assumes that fidelity to a character must be measured externally, as if there's an authoritative benchmark. But...
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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.
It's slightly complex to parse If you don't have an agenda as GM that includes making the character lives' not boring you should 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.
Right. The ‘not boring’ stems from other areas than action resolution. It comes from the setting/situation in your play.
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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.
Except that I do have an agenda of not making the characters'(and players') lives boring, which can be done in conjunction with fidelity...
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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.
"If you don't have an agenda as GM that includes making the character lives' not boring you should not use fail forward." This seems...