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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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This last claim seems to me to be false. Or rather, to be true only if the GM is bad - that is, if in response to the info-gathering... -
darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This goes to @Campbell's point. Someone who doesn't like "fail forward" gives an example of clumsy GMing - narrating the cook in the...
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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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Because no one is challenging the preference. Please seethe bolded below. This is what’s getting push back. He’s not just stating a... -
darkbard reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I work under the assumption that the amount of people who read threads is larger than the amount of posters. I’m more interested in...
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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 has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...
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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, you tell me? The games that I play have momentum, events in motion, trajectories of threat and promise. I've posted many...
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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
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When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It... -
darkbard reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There are two things here: (1) If someone has failed, generally the GM is going to make what in AW parlance would be called a hard...
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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've posted numerous examples over the whole course of this thread. I can tell you what Harper is saying. I anticipate I will then be...
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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 Love.
No protagonists? Do you just mean characters? So a cook is very likely to be found in a kitchen, right? But the cook will not spend...
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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 Love.
You keep pointing to an example where the consequence - the screaming cook - has not been telegraphed, has not been expressly or...
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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.
Perhaps you could keep it to the actual principles involved, rather than providing play examples that do a poor job of reflecting 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.
Why are we assuming the GM has not put any work into establishing stakes here? That they have telegraphed no dangers? Because if it's...
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darkbard reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure, we can rp characters staying at home. Good game!
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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.
As it happens, I know some pretty serious pure mathematicians. They can tell me some things that I can (almost) make sense of. I...