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EEric V 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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I'd add to this - if the probabilities are adjusted so that the overall outcome is not punishing, then each individual roll becomes... -
EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Unfortunately, in practice, what this means is that the PC's will nearly always fail. Because the DM simply piles on check after check...
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EEric V reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, well it was a quick example that I thought folks could separate from gameplay and would then easily demonstrate the connections...
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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Which is exactly why I have such a dislike for this "game-as-artifact" concept. You can now fluidly move back and forth between...
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EEric V reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The commitment to finding ever more absurd reasons to construct a Straw-Fail-Forward and knock it down is remarkable. For other people...
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EEric V reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I never claimed it started the fire. I don't even know how you would have drawn that conclusion. It's amazing to me how you guys are...
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EEric V reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
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...
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EEric V reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Are you going to tell us what rules you use to establish valid action declaration in the intent + task RPGs that you play? Or in any of...
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EEric V reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Am I to assume that you want your home to be in a battle zone, and you want to spend your days fighting for your life? -
EEric V 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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EEric V reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Good lord why are you still stuck on this when we've belabored the exact point from at least 5 different posters with explicit detail...
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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure, but that's exactly what I'm arguing. Almost all of us have one or two metagame things we excuse because they're useful, or...
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EEric V 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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EEric V reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Are you serious? I literally just asked for a rephrasing. That's now "hostile"? I'm not sure I'm going to have much more to say to you...
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EEric V reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Okay. I’ll make sure to quote this in the future when you complain that people are inconsistent with their definitions! Any metric the...