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Crimson Longinus reacted to CF07's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with
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We used taped together Hot Wheels tracks! Those stung but broomsticks must have really hurt. I agree about the broad sources but I... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, me neither. (OK, the last one might have some meta justifications going for it sometimes.)
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yet in your game Einstein indeed would cause things to be as he postulated. You cannot just reverse the causality and pretend that it...
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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.
What sort of reaching? I thought the whole point of the runes was that the player could attempt to author them by having his character...
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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.
You're conflating intent and action here (and also pointing out the reason I'm not thrilled with systems that demand intent as part of...
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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.
There is no more fiction to measure the runes against. We’ve got some runes on a wall, we’ve got a cunning expert and some genre...
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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.
Because the game does provide "any" information. It's quite clear how the stat, skill, and other modifiers affect your roll to show you...
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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.
This seems insufficient. You could as easily port that understanding to any board game that involves dice in resolution; the point is...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Its one of those things that seems to vary considerably. I've never had any trouble with convincing people to play other things than...
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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.
No. They do not. They cannot say priest give me all your churches riches, that is the thing i want. Or priest I want you to cast...
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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.
The paramount question is ‘how are they wanting to overcome said obstacle’. In the runes example the player must decide what he wants to...
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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.
You don't see any difference between persuading someone and determining what the runes mean?
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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.
I can hope that the junk email I receive really is going to reward me with a million dollars if I click the link but it's probably not...
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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 that's probably the wrong axis for that question. The relevant point is the nature of the action; in case B the relative impact...
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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.
This is my issue as well. Different games work differently? I'm glad, life would be boring if everything was the same. Saying that...