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FFrozenNorth reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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At least from my perspective losing a player to the group, even for just this game, is a substantive cost. It means losing a skilled... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Every single game does this. If a town in some detailed trad game world has 3000 inhabitants, how many detailed NPC descriptions do you...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It’s also more than that. It provides a framework to investigate whether people are OK with pushing certain boundaries in a game. In...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I've seen games that say things like "if you're a bigot, you're not allowed to play this game" (well, the phrasing is a bit saltier, but...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I mean, it feels like you are being deliberately obtuse here. Let me illustrate with a different example. I like historical fiction...
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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.
There's no "encouragement". There's a rule. If the GM doesn't follow the rule, the game won't go. (In the same sense that, if you try to...
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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.
Except that it can. It can't 100% perfectly prevent problems. That, I agree with. But rules absolutely can, and do, make a difference...
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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.
The real world is a place about which near-infinite data can be and has been collected, and which has millions of people working hard to...
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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.
Sure as hell could've fooled me with the way you and others talk about how harmful and disruptive players are.
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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.
If the setting is unrealistic, then I don't understand how the heuristic extrapolate what is the most realistic/plausible is supposed to...
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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.
Back during the days when I'd sometimes run sandboxes (its a style that requires a more self-motivating group of players than the one I...
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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 suppose. This is why I asked the question! But how do you see impartiality changing according to the goals of play? Like I said, if...
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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 don't know if I am impartial. At times, sure... I try to be fair and I try to portray the world as it's been established... so I think...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There is absolutely a point where being "partially subjective" renders "mostly objective" meaningless. Sort of like putting a vampire...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The DM making decisions to adjudicate the world without the need to reference any sort of resolution mechanic? Or at least having some...