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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General D&D Editions: Anybody Else Feel Like They Don't Fit In?.Do you understand, then, that this specific sentiment is why you will--always--get pushback? "I don't mind those people being excluded... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Even worse then. You've just raised the DM's burden--already THE single most enormous hump for any group wanting to play D&D, the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Is it? Is it really? Because my experience says exactly the opposite. DRAMATICALLY so. A game that is hard will just...be hard. Trying...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I have heard it repeated with 100% seriousness--or, at least, zero effort to communicate joviality--multiple times on this forum, to say...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Nope, as much as the pessimists would like it to be so, that ain't it. That is actually (close to) the definition of détente. A pause...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..At which point, we're right back to "the rules are for a game people aren't playing"--and then exactly as @Hussar says, folks will...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Or, what I imagine is a bit more likely - you'd see a lot of GMs softballing that nominally brutal game, at least for a while. -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Aye. I blame being tired. I wrote that while on sleep meds waiting to finally get tired enough to sleep! I disagree--flatly. THAC0...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It's the reverse of chronological snobbery. What one might call "old masters" syndrome. The work of the old masters is not to be...
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EzekielRaiden 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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I'd take that bet. It's funny how incredibly dismissive fans are of the tastes of other fans. Apparently, huge numbers of players only... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Would they become that? Or would they try it and then bounce off? Because--if I were a betting man, which I am not--that'd be what I...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General D&D Editions: Anybody Else Feel Like They Don't Fit In?.I'm not sure I played it. I did play a Dark Sun adventure, but I don't know if it was this one--but I can say that the way the adventure...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes. OSR-style players. Are you prepared to bet the whole game on the rather slim probability that most players are OSR-style?
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, and 4E, for that matter. 3E, for example, did actively perverse and hostile-to-the-playerbase stuff like intentionally designing...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Would they? Learning to drive a stick shift is necessarily harder than learning to drive an automatic. Yet the cars of today are much...