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darkbard reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Yeah, I was just pointing out that “that’s not the way the real world works” is true of every RPG. Because often in these... -
darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't know what you mean by "story driven play". I mean, you're the guy who says that you want fiction over rules; yet you seem to be...
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darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Your post shifts between talking about imaginary causation in the fiction, and the exercise of authorial power in the real world. The...
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darkbard reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Stakes in the sense we're talking about in the context of Narrativist play are personal stakes, as in stuff that matters to the...
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darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think it's a mistake to look at interesting fiction, and then - when thinking about how a RPG might replicate it - to bring in ideas...
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darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Can you give an example or illustration? Because my experience is frequently the opposite, as far as D&D is concerned. For instance...
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darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't know about appeal. But as per some of my recent replies, your accounts of how Apocalypse World and some similar games work are...
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darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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The weird thing is this: we have a perfectly good phrase to describe a group of people making up fiction without being governed by... -
darkbard reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So I just wanted to snip this bit out because I think it’s very relevant. First, I want to say that I understand your reasoning on this...
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darkbard reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Thanks for your thoughtfulness. The games I would recommend most for someone coming from your position would probably be Stonetop or...
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darkbard reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I loved Euchre in college. It's a great little card game with a deceptive amount of depth. Maybe there's something with 5e being Euchre...
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darkbard reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not putting the rules over the fiction and is still very much constrained by the shared fiction (what has been established). Both...
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darkbard reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, in Narrativist play the fun is still coming from the people and the fiction we create together. We are just creating it differently...
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darkbard reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Yes, of course! nothing new can happen! Even if it's not new and we all do it to some extent anyway! Never change!!!! -
darkbard reacted to Gilladian's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My home games (we reverted to 3.5e because I have all the toys and like the way we play it…) are definitely player-influenced, in a...