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I get that you have framed your argument in relation to a specific type of map/key style or event style. But these are the examples you...
Aug 9, 2025
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That last paragraph pretty clearly makes the implication that event-based play is usually railroading and map and key is usually linear...
Aug 9, 2025
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I think the opening post was very interesting right up to painting event based adventures as railroading and map & key based adventures...
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So..they need to move 6 spaces along the map without setting off 3 traps to get inside the fortress. Got it. I'm a big mapper. I...
Aug 9, 2025
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A timeline is just a map of time, rather than a map of physical space, in which case this reduces to a form of map and key. With...
Aug 9, 2025
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The weakness of such allegory is that as by externalising these aspects of human experience to distinct and fixed groups, you elide the...
Aug 9, 2025
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Humans have a racial flaw, they need food. There are even rules in D&D that makes people without food for long gain exhaustion level...
Aug 9, 2025
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Nope. They have somewhat different wing anatomy than modern birds, but their wings aren't actually backwards.
Aug 9, 2025
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I have always disliked this design concept. I dislike it even more than the other 5e designs. And I really, REALLY hate the new Gold...
Aug 9, 2025
Crimson Longinus
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I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
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But that is not how it has been used here nor I think this is even correct.
Aug 9, 2025
Crimson Longinus
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Sure, but if you are not careful with it, you might mess up the message of your allegory when you consociate it with your mythopoeia...
Aug 9, 2025
Crimson Longinus
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It looks stupid beyond belief.
Aug 9, 2025
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I like that.
Aug 9, 2025
Crimson Longinus
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And that's why it "works" for representing great strength. It feels significant so it is significant. And I certainly do not expect the...
Aug 8, 2025
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Yeah, it's strange, but I believe there's a psychological component to it, at least in my experience. Even though a +1 or +2 modifier...
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