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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..More or less. Not at all. Several OSR-adjacent folks on this forum (some of them participating in this thread!) have made very clear... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Likewise, I previously had someone working on a JD degree. I don't...do law stuff really. But law stuff comes up in a social context...
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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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I dunno. I once had a player take up 5 to 10 minutes of game time arguing with me about what a piece of particular technology should... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Precisely. It would be like an employer, where the only response the employees can give to not getting paid for their agreed wages is...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Except there's no recourse when they don't except taking a walk. That's pretty weak enforcement. And any attempt by players to push...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I had a DM who provided us with “NPCs” that he “suggested” we play in favor of the PCs we had. None of us went with it… it seemed an odd...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How do you have conversations with people you like spending time with (such as friends or your significant other) without them becoming...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think if the person is taking their time in an ideal environment maybe you'd be right but this is often in the heat of combat and a...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And I argue every unwritten rule will be broken. Especially in an environment where it is one specific person doing the breaking, when...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is nonsense. You did it earlier in the thread and now again. You hurl out a criticism that’s unfounded, but you couch it as “I...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to jayoungr's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For whatever anecdotal information is worth, that hasn't been my experience. Even in PbtA games, they'd have to be an option on your...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The fact that that isn't established in the fiction yet...? People don't get to declare anything just because they feel like it...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I have very, very little patience for invocations of "social contract" as though it provided anything at all. The social contract is...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, the rules explicitly say that you have to start and end with the fiction. Over and over and over. It's....literally the explicit...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Why? You've always said the power is absolute and that no rules, whatsoever, can ever limit them. Social contracts accomplish nothing...