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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
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IMO, I shouldn’t be having to deal with new mechanical information regarding an example you introduced 10000 posts ago and I’m not going... -
Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No it is not, or at least not any more than the player ability to accept any fact presented to them. Like I said earlier, either the...
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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.
For the cleric example to be the same the following would need to be true 1) the fictional constraints on the cleric (who he is, what...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General I finally like non-Tolkien species for PCs with Like.
For my own homebrew stuff, if I ever ran a (slightly) more traditional D&D-type setting, I would merge gnomes and halflings into the...
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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.
But you were saying any info, not complete info. You insisted at any info would be acceptable. In fact, you said that repeatedly. The...
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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.
While I don't think it can entirely be avoided without denying the fictional space in some cases, I outright say I'm pretty gamist and I...
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In my experience players wanting to do flat out impossible things simply is not a thing that happens. In rare cases it does, it is...
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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.
Oh, I'd argue the opposite, I associate negotiation with narrativism. I've been characterized as gamist a few times, and I've been...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with Like.
Er...doesn't...Frodo actually succumb to the temptation of the Ring? Hard to call that "Christ-like" when he literally did choose to be...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to CF07's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with Like.
We used taped together Hot Wheels tracks! Those stung but broomsticks must have really hurt. I agree about the broad sources but I...
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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...