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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You break the sim by drawing acausal odds from stats that supposedly measure diegetic things. -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes there is. But the player deciding what their character hoped, made that decision based on information that the mechanics can make...
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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
Haha.
You just need to find some runes and hope they indicate an exit ;) -
Crimson Longinus reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
Rats, I swore to myself I would be out right after post 20,000, and just above I find I authored 20,002. Is there no escaping this thread!
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Crimson Longinus reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I like this example. With a trapdoor, you already know its function. Your roll is to utilise its function. With the runes, you do not... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with Like.
If it makes you feel any better, I get tired of the "good/bright things are boring, bad/dark things are awesome" thing as well. I find...
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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.
I think the issue here is the following: Either it was a move that was done fully according to the rules of the game with approperiate...
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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.
Then we're missing steps. Perhaps whatever the "simulation" (probably the wrong term, but we're stuck here) thing is we're taking about...
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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.
Are we going to make any real attempt to get at why some mechanics cause a backlash and others don't? It looked like for a moment we...
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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.
I say again: abstraction. Please let the poor "100% sim or it doesn't count" strawman rest.
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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.
Nope. Please stop telling me what I really think when I've told you why. Right, where they then "guessed" that the chest contained...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Levistus's_Leviathan's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with Like.
Tieflings have a designated niche, being scrappy underdog devil people, which has made them super popular. Especially amongst people...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with Like.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish) with Like.
My own observation is that sort thing feels much more visible in play than you'd think, even if the final result doesn't change overly...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish).Anyway, the topic. When designing rules for a game and wanting to keep them simple, one needs to identify when making something more...