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FFrozenNorth reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Seriously, they're NPCs, all the 100s of ways we use to judge the competency and reliability of people, to know who to trust are not... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Quoting both since these are the same question from different sources. Some of the GMs you describe have instead said the opposite...
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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.
In Apocalypse World, ":if you do it, you do it" means that if a player has their PC do <this specified sort of thing> in the fiction...
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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.
Asking people to explain is not refusing to accept. It's interesting how such a simple question has evoked such a strong response...
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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.
Why would you not accept other peoples’ verbiage? Isn’t that just actively trying to not understand them? I said I understand your use...
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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.
It would just be nice if people could stop using game jargon and just talk casually for once. :)
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Chaosmancer's post in the thread D&D (2024) The Battle Master Paradigm with Like.
Well, I've mentioned before some of my changes from before One DnD 18th level I gave them -> Lord of Battle: Enemies cannot have...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Tony Vargas's post in the thread D&D (2024) The Battle Master Paradigm with Like.
Oh, fun stuff along the lines 3.5 Combat Reflexes (someone provokes an OA, when I already used my Reaction, spend my CS die, and OA them...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Kobold Stew's post in the thread D&D (2024) The Battle Master Paradigm with Like.
We disagree. In the games I play, we encounter different and increasingly diverse opponents, who require more complex tactics, as we...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Kobold Stew's post in the thread D&D (2024) The Battle Master Paradigm with Like.
The Battlemaster is, for me, a subclass that lets you build your favorite fantasy fighter. Many ideas that I have* work with 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.
Well, yes, obviously. The problem is the natural usage of the word encounter means to actually, ya know, interact with something...
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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.
Because an encounter is a thing that occurs. If no encounter occurs, then what is it that was bypassed? The answer 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.
Notice how important "planned" is in that definition being viable, and how much it assumes a norm of pre-planned, module or...
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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.
OK? Then why do you keep posting replies to my comments (and threads that I've started over the years) about the analysis of game play...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to darkbard's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this creates real problems in the hobby and it accounts for why we see seemingly erroneous understandings of certain games...