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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
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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 didn't say it was. No, with that I disagree. NPCs are not as important to play as PCs. Nor should they be as important to the GM as...
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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 think we all know that it is common for D&D and D&D-adjacent rulebooks to be incomplete, in the sense that there are things that have...
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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.
Sure, but for me, my game isn't about finding out if this NPC can resist torture. My game is about the players and what their characters...
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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.
Everyone know that the real world of our actual lives and history is far too implausible to provide a model for a FRPG!
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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.
Sure, except my experience shows that it is entirely possible. And I don't think that I or my players are exceptional in some way. So I...
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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 don't think @AlViking is equivocating. As I just posted, I don't think AlViking is familiar with other possible ways of resolving...
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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.
No. But I do want the GM to stick to the action resolution rules. No one in this thread has argued for that. So I don't know who you...
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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.
Sure. History is also replete with people whose minds were changed - by reason, by fear, by love, by chance. Now, how do we make all...
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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.
Huh? Pulsipher is contrasting the "living novel" style - which he dislikes, but tries to faithfully describe - with what he calls the...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If someone has more power, we expect more of them. As I said, when a player has the routine ability to make things bad for one or more...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Most "rulings not rules" fans are excluding so much I find it hard to be charitable in assuming its just a subset of areas they don't...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D 5E Which was the most recent Wizards adventure you consider a classic? with Like.
Just finished our fifth (or sixth?) Out of the Abyss session and they just left Sloobludop. This was a freaking EPIC scene. The party...
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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.
Someone recently reminded me of this thing that actually happened in the actual history of our actual world: Joan was born to a...
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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.
Really? I mean, he added hobbits, and ents. And talking birds both big and small. How can we say, a priori, that anthropomorphic turtles...