EzekielRaiden's latest activity
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Are you talking the shield spell in your game (which I'm 95% sure isn't any flavor of 5th edition), or the shield spell in 5e? Because... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Again: it isn't a matter of the possibility. I understand the possibility is there. The problem is that the approach is predicated on...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But nothing they tell you is ever anything more than what you already knew. That's my problem here. It's that literally ANY form of...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Pardon, yes. Lost my train of thought and forgot to come back. My problem is, I hyperfocus, and I get very enthusiastic about things...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I am not saying they are the same. I am saying there is no way for the player to ever, even in principle, figure out whether or not...
-
EzekielRaiden reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
Like.
Can I reject it as a non-answer or insufficient to understand your judgement process in a situation? Edit: taking your answer above to... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Conversely: It feels like you aren't even remotely taking the discussion seriously, and instead treating it as an exercise in saying...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, you have not. Repeatedly. You don't get to declare that your answers are understandable to me, and thus I am somehow in the wrong...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It is also condescending to answer a question with synonyms for "stuff" when folks have consistently asked for specificity.
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Certainly. Interestingness is a valid thing to use--but it is both subjective and, more importantly, relative to the players. Which is...
-
EzekielRaiden reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean, I know how I run Stonetop - whatever pops into my brain that doesn’t conflict with my Agenda flows out. I’m not going to say...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay. How can you determine consistency, when the vast majority of the information--the context--is permanently inaccessible to you?
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How? How can you distinguish arbitrary from non-arbitrary when the world is sealed behind the black box, other than the drip of...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay so... If anything will do... Why isn't this decision arbitrary? Folks have repeatedly insisted that it is not, in any way shape...
-
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Exactly. Dungeon World grew out of a context where a maxim specifically addresses this (even though, IIRC, it isn't actually written...