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FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Sure, it's possible. But we were talking about the idea that prep adds depth, and so I was asking how deep a setting may seem to the... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The one and only function the X-card serves is to give an official signal, from one of the participants, that a particular topic or...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The only way it could affect a sandbox is if it is being abused. I'm not interested in talking about a mechanic being openly abused in...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But how is the GM who is just randomly deciding doing anything different than the one who has prepared a specific plot ahead of time...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to dave2008's post in the thread D&D 5E According to the Hasbro Q1 earning call D&D sales are up substantially. with Like.
Astrology is in the same sphere as flat-earthers. I.e., it has no basis in scientific fact. If it is an issue of faith - sure, have at it!
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D 5E According to the Hasbro Q1 earning call D&D sales are up substantially..Plato also believed the geocentrism model, that the sun and the moon and the stars rotated around it. The fact that an intelligent...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread D&D 5E According to the Hasbro Q1 earning call D&D sales are up substantially. with Like.
My deepest apologies. I forgot we live in an era where one only needs to cite a famous person to legitimize a pseudoscience, which...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread D&D 5E According to the Hasbro Q1 earning call D&D sales are up substantially. with Like.
Well, well, well, D&D is not dying after all. (y) Told you so! ;) The anti-WoTC-D&D YouTube echo chamber will go berserk trying to find...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread D&D 5E According to the Hasbro Q1 earning call D&D sales are up substantially. with Like.
Savage Worlds made an impression starting in 2003. By 2012, it was the default non-D&D game for many groups in our area. It was...
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FFrozenNorth 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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FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I dunno, I don't really go in for this sort of prescriptiveness.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think there may be some bit of range with some systems and how they are handled by the GM… but yeah, the idea that they are separate...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Procedures for resolving actions and how the referee responds to player choices are not distinct things. They are intimately connected.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
@Hussar has described Ironsworn as a sandbox-supporting game. Upthread @Faolyn posted a list of systems that (putatively) support...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But this isn't true for all sandboxing. @Hussar has used Ironsworn as an example of a system to support sandboxing, and it doesn't need...