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Which makes it very "mechanics first, fiction as colour." If the player invents something clever that should resolve the situation then... -
FrogReaver replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The question might be why are you changing the fiction before, to what ends and why is it better to do it beforehand and then run the...
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I didn't intend to intimate that there is anything wrong with you... one ought to as readily take what I wrote to imply that there is... -
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For a lot of people the HOW is every bit as or even more important than the event itself. For you it seems not to matter. For me it...
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I did just this once, and it was the funniest thing ever. 9th-10th-ish level party are in a forest, on high alert for legitimate...
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It's very possible. Some encounters are not avoidable or the players fail to avoid them, but need for whatever reason to get past. It...
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3e has Do you cheat? The answer: The DM really can’t cheat. You’re the umpire, and what you say goes. As such, it’s certainly within...
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Executive orders do have the weight of law within the Executive branch. Which in this case happens to include all the relevant agencies...
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There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...
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I don't think the two must be mutually exclusive, but they will have to share. As the race happens at the pyramid, if the map dictates a...
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That all makes sense. I couldn’t play this way with NPC agendas and goals out on the table upfront because for me that destroys...
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Re: D&D 4E Skill Challenges I've said this elsewhere, but I ran them very differently when I was running 4E. Instead of X successes...
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This is a good question. So this assumes that the GM baked a path into the SC, like the graphs mentioned elsewhere. This is certainly...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Sure. But there’s no basis for which goal should be difficult and which shouldn’t be. Which demonstrates the arbitrariness of using...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Yea that’s along the same thought lines I’d had, though said much more eloquently. My point was more that if someone wanted those...