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Flying Toaster reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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I gotta admit I don't fully understand...or maybe 'sympathize with' is a better way of expressing it...the importance placed on... -
Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I was thinking about this thread cycling home yesterday evening, and was puzzled by what seems to be an assumption made in many of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
The notion that there is some sort of trade off between player and GM enjoyment of the game - on some posited spectrum from "dancing...
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Flying Toaster reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
So there's a lot of chat in the thread about player vs. gm, and the player's right to add to lore vs the gm's right to resist other...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Not sure if I agree with this. IMHO, aesthetics and resonance matter, and both of these are reasons why players pick certain races even...
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Flying Toaster reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Just wanted to share a moment from my session tonight where players got really excited about some Dragonlance lore, and how I got there...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I thought I'd post some examples of "lore" mattering to the players. Here are two, both from high level 4e D&D play: The lore matters...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
See, I love history (real or imagined), so I want the history of the setting front and center. That's the most fun part for me. That...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Hriston's post in the thread D&D General Christmas elves in dnd? with Like.
Gnome was coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. It refers to the Bergmännlein or "mountain manikin", a class of beings believed to...
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In a shorter editorial this month Ian Livingstone shares his joy at the growth of Games Day. He claims it is the largest of its kind in...
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Flying Toaster reacted to darjr's post in the thread D&D General How well does mixing 5es in one table work? with
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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Counterpoint: when was the last time a Bond film was culturally relevant? They have stuck stubbornly to the same formula (handsome while...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Imagine if this wasn't the case with any of the D&D settings. A Dwarf from Greyhawk would have lore and species features that would set...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Do you not understand that only a miniscule fraction of the world(every setting ever made), it's cities and its history has been...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting with Like.
Yes, the UA has a table that opens up cleric to gray, hill, and mountain dwarves. Edit: Of course no table I ever played at limited...