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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
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For situations like that, I used to make the players do a Perception check, or whatever the system equivalent was. (Spot, for example... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Mate with love - and I do like your posts, let's be clear - you sometimes seem to actively butt into conversations to tell people how...
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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.
Micah, is there anyone involved in this thread at this point that you really feel has any doubt about your preferences? You point them...
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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.
Constraints are necessary. You clearly agree based on your opening “some limitations are necessary”. It’s not “rhetoric”… it’s just a...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The key difference is that virtually every time a narrativist viewpoint (or game that has one) comes up, a bunch of people rush to say...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Hope it's okay if I weigh in on tone here. But does this phrasing seem to imply something about a belief? Here is an alternative...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally, I think Perception (and perhaps more controversially, Knowledge) clearly should be defenses. Hidden creatures or things (or...
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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.
“Rhetoric”? Do you really disagree that constraints are necessary? Considering this thread does not appear to be a casual...
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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.
I must beg your forgiveness for being rather annoyed at your phrasing here, when you took me to task for saying literally exactly that...
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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.
....all of which is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT to whether or not the conflict occurs. It could've happened anywhere. At the inn. On the trail...
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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.
Yes, because so many people simply refuse to discuss those principles in any way, shape, or form, other than in the most abstract and...
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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.
And yet I've played quite a bit of D&D that...didn't work that way. That wasn't the GM authoring the entirety of the world and waiting...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Guest 85555's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No, because it is about the principles underlying the GM decisions. You are just reducing those principles to 'not doing anything...
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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.
Isn't that circular? "Provided the GM never does anything wrong, the GM never does anything wrong."
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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.
And if the DM tells you, "What barmaid?", what would you say? You've been one of the folks quite ready to trash anything that you think...