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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I think the difference here is an expectation of the state of the sand. Imagine for a moment you went to the beach and someone had...
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Whether or not people care should not determine whether something actually is a sandbox or not. So you're fine with something...
Apr 28, 2025
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The "restrictions" you speak of are in the fiction, not the rules. The fiction of a world that doesn't have spaceships, electronics...
Apr 28, 2025
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My main thing is, I don't like the idea that all magic is 100% the same. It's too modern-tech-like, too "clean". So I prefer that the...
Apr 28, 2025
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Viewing all rules as inherently "they box you in and prevent you from doing good things" is a position I don't agree with. That is...
Apr 28, 2025
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Please stop misrepresenting my point. I DO say that it is faster and easier. I DO NOT say that it is better. That's something you...
Apr 28, 2025
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"How to be a referee" is almost never backed by hard rules, just suggestions at most. For example, a PbtA game might tell you to "be a...
Apr 28, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I mean it is literally better at sandboxing. That's what it's for, to be better at being more sandbox-y. It's just not better for the...
Apr 27, 2025
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The problem is, if you hard-deny all forms of soft control, then about half the Controller's stuff goes out the window too. Zones are no...
Apr 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I mean, we keep circling around back to something I said literally hundreds of posts ago, where I laid out that pure-railroad is at one...
Apr 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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No. But I am saying that this process was designed for dungeon-exploration, and that applying it outside its original scope reveals some...
Apr 27, 2025
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Isn't that how Defenders work, though? And why people see Defender and Controller as so similar? "No matter what you choose, you...
Apr 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I don't think omission gets you all the way there, though. That's...sort of the point? Omission only eliminates (presumptively)...
Apr 27, 2025
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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Surely there is a vast difference between discovering a useful but unintended application in something like a drug, and (as my previous...
Apr 27, 2025
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It is what I read, from repeated posts. They did not mention sandbox--and several different people have taken Hussar to task over the...
Apr 27, 2025
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