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EzekielRaiden reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set with
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Hotter take, if your an experienced dnd player, you simply cannot answer that question. I'm in the middle of playtesting a boardgame... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I feel like this debate is veering into the general “GM best practices around trust, fairness and properly reading the room”. After 25...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.I do see the Cleric as being pretty openly "Christian priest in armor with the serial numbers filed off", and having universal abilities...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
Agreed. This also gets to the point that I was making earlier with @Micah Sweet. I wasn't sure how I would necessarily go about creating...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".Something I am quite proud of with my Dungeon World game is that, on more than one occasion, the players have had this response, not to...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".Above and beyond anything else in the thread, this is a lesson I wholeheartedly embrace and wish more GMs would heed. Doesn't matter...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill".How does this square with the way a lot of old-school adventures are presented? Because, frankly, a lot of them look like"door-kicking...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Seramus's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
The realistic answer is that GM's don't have any limitations, beyond the players choosing to abandon the table. But the overwhelming...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.Yes, very much this. "I made an exchange with a powerful being in order to have power myself" does not justify heavy-handed GMing, and...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Older Beholder's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with Like.
I find I have seen the opposite issue more often compared to what most people are complaining about here. In my experience it's more...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.It's not a matter of asymmetry. I'm fine with asymmetry. Different kinds of powers, different kinds of limits. I'm not fine with one...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts with
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And that finds the crux of my argument. Sure, a DM could have Asmodeus remove a rebellious warlocks powers, but the DM could just have... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.But the umpire doesn't make all the calls. They make some calls--and they are subject to review and dispute. Further, the players have...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.Then why are players so obligated?
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts.I don't accept this double standard. If players are subject to guaranteed automatic limitations, so should GMs be. Nobody gets a free...