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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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Here's a post I made over 10 years ago, that quotes a bit about how some resolution methods facilitate certain sorts of approaches to... -
darkbard reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. Certainly what is discussed on EnWorld generally as 'simulation(ism)' is at best unrelated to Narrativist play goals. Like in our...
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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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First is you stop caring about the “metagame”. There’s just the game. Second, you telegraph danger ahead of time. Or at the very... -
darkbard reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I agree with your last paragraph. I believe many folks have a good idea of what they’re looking for in a game and select games and...
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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.
Im not telling you you're doing it wrong, I'm saying that every game I'm personally aware of which bakes fail-forward into its design...
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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.
Sometimes clarification isn't about arguing a point or however you and others choose to play. Often it is about accurate representation...
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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 reiterated the imagined instance of play of Apocalypse World, where the PC breaks into Dremmer's storeroom and encounters Pattycakes...
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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.
This is contentious. In the way PCs are built - stats, feats, the components of a character's "race" - is heavily derived from 3E D&D...
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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.
Here is what he says about Pendragon, in the blog: Pendragon is a prime example of a [substantial exploration] game, as the purpose of...
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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.
@pemerton One area that Eero Tuovinen really fails to grasp at when it comes to simulation (and I think this has been a general...
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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.
Oh, loss is fascinating. That's totally different then whiffing on a task and then standing around looking at each other.
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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.
Not true. Cooperative games exist. TTRPGs are largely held to be an excellent example of those. In fact, pretty much every TTRPG rule...
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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.
You’re picking a concept of game-running apart by relying on an absurdist and constructed example. We’ve said many times that people...
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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.
But if you're using "fail forward", then you're not adopting this aspect of traditional play. Or to put it another way, it makes no...
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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'm not talking about the word. As @Campbell has repeatedly posted in this thread, I'm talking about what play is about. What it is...