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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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You just can't answer the question directly, huh? Forget gameplay for a moment. If in real life, if someone was trying to open the... -
darkbard reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah, the real problem here is the richness of the world being described being vastly, almost unimaginably, less than reality. In...
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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.
Common sense in life. Forget play for a minute and think about how things work in the real world. If you forget to pick up milk at 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.
It's also silly from the point of view of philosophy of action and causation. A post of mine from a few years ago makes the point...
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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 I am talking about doesn’t really have anything to do with the game and is not me telling you anything about bad-wrong-fun. I’m...
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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.
I’m not talking about your task resolution or whatever, I’m once again trying to correct your continued misrepresentation of...
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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.
A few thoughts on this. If there are new players discovering things for the first time, that doesn't mean that seasoned players will...
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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.
What we narrate in the open is stuff that is important to play that an actual person in the context would likely notice. This is made...
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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.
There's also a difference between not worrying as much about the divide between player and character knowledge (which is what I was...
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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.
It's clear that you're frustrated, but I'm struggling a bit to work out what I'm missing. You seem to be taking the Tuovinen essay...
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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.
My initial intuition is that there is little truth to it. As I've posted upthread, in "trad" RPGing I think there is a lot of "author"...
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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.
For you it may be. But I’m not asking you to adopt this method for your game. I’m explaining the way these games work because you asked...
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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.
"Optimizing the fiction" to shape the outcome range is definitely part of what I see as fiction-first gameplay, for the games that bring...
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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.
No… again, I don’t care if you like it or not. But the way in which you describe it… the reasons you give for not liking it, contain...
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darkbard reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It’s not moving the goalposts. It’s a disagreement with the context someone extracted from the statement. If someone says “it’s...