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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It is absolutely metagaming. It is the insertion of an incredibly convenient captive in the very next room of the dungeon, not because... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?.So most Bards and Warlocks, some Sorcerers and Artificers, and all EKs and ATs are terrible and should never have existed? If your...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I did not. But I have now! Frustrated? Probably not, unless they were really insistent about something I had heard, given it a genuine...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?.I'm not saying metamagic should be removed from the Sorcerer. I'm saying that it has too little beyond that--and that the "your soul...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Which is really, really funny, given how many folks have said that simulation would be impossible in a game like the one I run :)
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Could the DnDNext Sorcerer be revived as its own class?.Yes absolutely 100% it could and IMO should be. What's the thing folks complain about all the time with Sorcerer? It's a class with no...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well...it's not really any of those things. I want to frame scenes that inspire the players to take action*, in order to find out what...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, I've already said that I don't entirely agree with that perspective. That is one thing rules can do, yes. But rules also provide...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Of course, "metagaming" is often in the eye of the beholder. I've frequently been told that in standard old-school play, "player...
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IMHO there was almost nothing that changed between original D&D through AD&D 2e, they're fairly modest variants and updates of basically... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..At least for myself, that's why I don't talk about "process" at all. I talk about purposes, that is, teleology: the thing for which a...
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I think it is worth mentioning that GNS was NEVER about people, or games, it was about PLAY. Even in that sense its author has since...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Aw, have they changed it so much in the second edition? That's a shame. I was hoping for similar-but-even-better clever design but the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Likewise, I have endeavored to cultivate something adjacent to the Golden Age of Islam and the height of Al Andalus, albeit with a...
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No. Certainly what is discussed on EnWorld generally as 'simulation(ism)' is at best unrelated to Narrativist play goals. Like in our...