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Faolyn reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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More interesting, yes. But is it true? There are some people who would easily cave. And there are people who would rather die than break... -
Faolyn reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Is it reasonable in character for the NPC not to? Most people have things that they will not do. Agree that if they would reasonably...
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Faolyn reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So if the GM makes a call without procedural restraints, it can't be a sandbox. According to you and, from the couple dozen articles...
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Faolyn replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..My bad; I meant characters. And while we may do group creation (or not; some players jump the gun), that doesn't mean the characters...
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Faolyn reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Robots, Vampires, and Wombats: Random Campaign Setting Ideas with Like.
Turn the monolithic towers into statues of Ganeesh and make the vampires vampiric squash and you have a Digger homage.
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Faolyn reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I get this argument and at one point found it convincing. I think there's still something to it, in that something the GM is very...
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Faolyn replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..IME, after just an hour of game the players are still trying to get to know each other and figure out why they're hanging out together...
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Faolyn reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I just want to chime in and say that this isn't a problem (unless you don't trust your DM to make these decisions fairly, and that's not...
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Faolyn reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Two things. 1) First, editing. If you do things in advance, you don't have to go with your first idea. You have more time to evaluate...
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Faolyn reacted to robertsconley's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My experience has been different. However, it is not a question of which experience is more relevant. It's about understanding our...
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Faolyn reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Who says the GM is just randomly deciding? For example in a recent session the characters came across some Githyanki who's ship had...
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Faolyn reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think the difference here is an expectation of the state of the sand. Imagine for a moment you went to the beach and someone had...
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Faolyn reacted to Kromanjon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For me, sandbox is a campaign style, totally divorced from system. A sandbox can be played prepped or not prepped. The question then...
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Faolyn reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Viewing all rules as inherently "they box you in and prevent you from doing good things" is a position I don't agree with. That is...
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You might've missed them cuz they were under "tests;" they're in the 2024 and 2025 player PDFs.