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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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It's interesting you pick those examples. In every example, the leader has a specific task (or set of tasks) that need to be completed... -
EEric V reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Because it doesn't work. Same reason movie productions, theater plays, businesses, classrooms, militaries and militias, and governments...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Why? I realize that this has been the general sort of consensus for years, but, why? Why not vote? Why must the decision be the DM's...
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EEric V reacted to JiffyPopTart's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Please help me to understand how my example is not an "in-fiction" representative of a minion? He appears like any other tough foe that...
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EEric V reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
The difference is, even the best tricks aren't the best tricks all the time. You learn them because they're good a fair bit of the...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You did. The only way that destroyed precludes unconcious is if targets cannot be killed. Because anything that can be killed can be...
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EEric V replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You are, though one could understand why you might be a little unsure: People have, almost 2 decades later, found a new way to criticize...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Let's not forget the cherry picking too. After all, zombies, skeletons, ghouls, wights, specters and ghosts all can be destroyed AND...
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EThe thing I mostly remember from Darwin in the comics was that they tried to put him up against Worldbreaker Hulk, and his power's...
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EEric V reacted to JiffyPopTart's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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RE: Hit points are meat. Last night's session, I had the joyous task of trying to explain how Vicious Mockery rendered a frantic deer... -
EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Your character has 50 HP. He takes 5 points of damage. What happened? Same character takes 49 points of damage. What happened? What...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
See, again, this is the whole 6 impossible things before breakfast. HP make zero sense. AC is an abstraction that makes virtually no...
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EEric V reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And the function of a fireball is to cause slaughter en masse, burning people to death. In the real world, we've come to generally agree...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Like I said, fair enough. It's a bit of a stretch too far for me. But, then again, it is very much in keeping with most of the...
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EEric V reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, let me get this straight. My PC kills fifteen orcs with a fireball, and that's perfectly, morally acceptable. My PC kills fifteen...