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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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I'm guessing that most of us would be able to do those things just as well as we'd be able to negotiate many life or death matters... -
darkbard reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Last things first, I think I've established that I don't see this as a loss of player agency. And I didn't think you were asking about...
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darkbard reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Because it's being used as an explanation when it doesn't actually have any explanatory power. "Why did you buy Bellcamp's soup instead... -
darkbard reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
I’m not. I’m pointing out that there are other reasons and those are the ones worth examining. They matter to everyone. So, let’s talk...
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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 Love.
Why are we evaluating the Burning Wheel Steel mechanic in terms of the sorts of fiction D&D is utilized to play. No one has suggested...
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darkbard reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, I'm not super fond of a lot of what I read about the DW2 design either. Honestly I don't think it addresses the issues I had with...
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darkbard reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah and honestly what I do the most in my games is ask a provocative question like "hey so, how do you feel after killing that guy...
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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 Like.
What makes it contradictory is all the appeals to realism in many other ways, but then saying “I don’t care about realism, this is a...
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darkbard reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This one is a little tricky. I think your posited belief would work well. I could also see something like "My mission is far too...
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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 Like.
Well, that’s subjective. I imagine that an expert climber and someone like me who can barely climb out of bed would have different...
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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 Like.
Sure, absolutely. And sometimes, they freeze up or hide or otherwise flinch or hesitate when they never have before. This stuff happens...
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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.
Right. That is the core gameplay loop for D&D and most conventional RPGs. It's not for a number of games. Including fairly conventional...
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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.
I don't think anyone is wrong about what they would prefer, but I do think people who lack experience say some pretty phenomenal wild...
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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 Like.
Your ability to influence play of a game as a player is different than your ability to influence the real world as a person. There's...
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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.
For the record I have never stated that characters should have more information (in more conventional play) than makes logical sense...