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EzekielRaiden reacted to Mind of tempest's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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I know people who would refluff the sapient ooze as living excrement they do not even know how far it could go -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Session zero is by definition before play actually begins. You specifically said: That means my character is not anything--no name, no...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General ENWorld is better that the pundits…change my mind.Which is like saying that being on active duty in WWII is more casual than being a proto-SEAL in WWII, so therefore it is casual. It's...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.The person I replied to rejected session zero as a possibility from the beginning. Because I can quite easily write a dragonborn...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.If I may--what on earth does that mean? I know what 3e gestalt rules are, not sure about "fixie" in this context (and I fear google-fu...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.So the GM gets absolute control, and the players meekly play along, no objections whatsoever? I'm using harsh language here, but I'm...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Why should my backstory include the other party members I haven't even met yet? Seriously, I'm terribly confused here. In fact, forget...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Conversely, the way I see this, you're saying "never ever bring me anything but a dead-empty blank slate with slightly less flavor than...
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EzekielRaiden reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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This is going to be some armchair psychoanalysis, but I think this is due to a heavy an element of traditionalism stemming from design... -
EzekielRaiden reacted to Kannik's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
As a total aside, as someone who really enjoys 'taurs and who has written and released 'taurric rules for 4 separate editions of D&D, it...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Whereas I think it makes no impact one way or the other. Why does that make it feel like an MMO? Almost all MMOs actively work to make...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General ENWorld is better that the pundits…change my mind.They don't though. Nobody ever needs to know that much. At most, you need to learn like, one or two useful things. Players do this all...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.Perhaps. But this brings up another aspect. You mention the players having a stable of characters, or at least character concepts...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General ENWorld is better that the pundits…change my mind.It emphatically did not. Like...in numerous ways, it is not a casual game. I have been teaching someone to play it recently. It is not...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.It's a fair question, certainly. If the players like centaurs, is it possible to integrate centaurs in an interesting way? Integration...