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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, there are at least four possibilities. They are incorrect because they are mistaken about what "simulationist" means; they had an... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..We had the ability to traverse the Silk Road from ca. 200 BC to ca. 1400 AD. Nearly two thousand years of traversing a road. During...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think these are distinctions without a difference. Here are some definitions (Oxford Languages via Google), which show that ordinary... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.Well, keep in mind that Tolkien originally had four races and only four races, plus (functionally) Always Chaotic Evil Orcs--and the...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.Not really. The last time we got statistics, dragonborn were the fourth-most-popular playable race, behind humans (basic + variant)...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Main counterpoint: remember that the Keebler cookie-makers are elves. They're tiny. "Elf", "sprite", "pixie", etc. were more or less...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.Got into Tolkien first--because my parents had read and loved them, and I watched the '77 Rankin-bass version of The Hobbit at a very...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Right. AD&D, up to and including UA, is really pretty thin on resolution mechanics despite its many many pages. There are thief... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Certainly not. The Americas had been interacting--limitedly--with Europe and Asia for centuries, possibly millennia. Nobody knew that...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay... So when I said I think it's best for GMs to leave a "beyond the horizon" space where things aren't fully fleshed out, why was...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Is it the human-only-ness that really defines GoT? I certainly wouldn't think so. Also, note how you are intentionally crossing...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay, but do you not see how all of this still comes back to "this is the Lanefan-specific thing"? Someone coming to this with no...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Are you arguing with me? Or are you arguing with a straw man? Because this looks like a CR 0 straw golem to me, and I'm not going to...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I felt their analogy was very good (GM creating a setting with "PC shaped holes" for players to fill), but let's get loquacious. There...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I can't speak for @EzekielRaiden, but for me, it would depend on how much leeway I'm allowed. If it's just "make up some holy days and...