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FrogReaver reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I gave a quite extensive answer to this previously, but that is a bit dense, and relly on terminology I have since rejected. I'll link... -
FrogReaver reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Agree with Micah that these read identically to me. The GM decides, based on what the roll says and how they interpret it, suggests that...
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FrogReaver reacted to definiteFreakyFishGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Heh, I drafted and deleted some version of this comment over-and-over because I couldn't get the wording quite right. But that is the...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yea, I think you are on to something. Framing narrativist games skills as a characters skill at being lucky in some subset of situations...
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FrogReaver reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Far more fun would be a tarrasque made of ice cream. I mean, if you're gonna go gonzo, why stop at half-measure? :) -
FrogReaver reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But the output of the rule using the modifier is not an evaluation of the character's skill (necessarily, if it's color, it might be)...
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FrogReaver reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You know, if it was clear that the modifier wasn't representative of skill, perhaps even going so far as to primarily explain modifiers...
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FrogReaver reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And I just disagree. I can't help it if you don't see that an action of picking a lock being tied to a person being in the other room...
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FrogReaver reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I proposed this kind of thing earlier, and I've been thinking about it since. I think it solves a little better for player agency than...
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FrogReaver reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, I am pretty sure that is the case. The independence of the world is in conflict with the wish to have a good story strongly focused...
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FrogReaver reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Did you see this? This go into the core why this particular technique stabs into the heart of the notion of independence i a very real... -
FrogReaver reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Nice clarification. I use the "illusion" not as a negative term. Rather I have previously found it usefull to prevent the predictable...
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FrogReaver reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'd push for clarity on what is meant by "illusion" here. To my eye, this is "illusory" only the same sense that the entire enterprise...
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FrogReaver reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, in 5ed a GM can introduce a flying tarasque throwing icream around while singing born to be wild. That doesn't mean that it is good...
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FrogReaver reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The cute jargon in a lot of these games really rubs me the wrong way, to be honest. Probably a me thing, but I feel how I feel.