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FFrozenNorth reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I would tend to agree with you, despite my table playing traditional D&D with indie techniques and ideas thrown in here and there and... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It may have been more from another recent thread that was similar. My point here is that when the GM largely sets the goal of play...
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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.
Make that Dex save, lol. Yea, just can't agree with that. I don't think they can, and I think that's important.
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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.
Please see the example of play provided below. I'd not go so far as to say it's a railroad, but I think it's clearly very GM driven. The...
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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.
I mean, if the player's decision-making is driven by "this name sounds cool" or something equally trivial, that's not bad, but it is a...
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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.
Because when "what the DM has written in his notebook can overrule anything else happening at the table", they have de facto unlimited...
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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.
A "choose your own adventure" book also lets you as a player make choices based on limited information to reveal what consequences...
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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.
I just think there's a difference between "triggered by player interaction" and "based around player interaction". The motivation seems...
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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 something unexpected might happen is a basis for saying that the players are exercising control. It seems to be the...
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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.
Not to mention that the actual range of "butterfly effect" knock-off effects from any action is so broad as to be unable to be simulated...
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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? Always? Typically? In @Lanefan's example, charming (and really, it would be any delaying) of a random NPC in a tavern is...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
How can it not? The players won't go to places the DM doesn't put in front of them. They would have no reason to travel to place X...
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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. Is it a heuristic that is amenable to player knowability? That depends. Personally, I think it is more amenable to knowability...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The idea that sandboxes are ever "impartial and objective" is a bit silly. The sandbox has to include things that the players will find...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Err, I find they often do. There is not much point in having a hatred of X as a character trait if X is Sir Not Appearing in this...