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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Why? Maybe because you don't have enough like-minded people around to run the game exactly how you want to do it? Or maybe you really... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I know. Just because I have a different focus than you, don't treat me like I don't know the field. Instead, how about you start by...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok, but even pretty much all “conventional” game state-of-the-art advice embraces a fail-forward mentality. Daggerheart is probably the...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No, it's because you keep dropping crappy little one liners like digs or "crapposting" throughout this thread. Like, you show up each...
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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.
Classic dungeon-crawling D&D allows for rolls that don't "move the narrative forward". For instance, the players are allowed to declare...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR with Like.
It's been awhile; time for a few minor updates. Tom from Tabletop Taproom, aka @Jedion357, who first got involved in all this NuTSR...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, the discussion was about how poorly designed game mechanics can affect the pacing of a game, so the fact that you can improve...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes Micah, we know that you're also extremely conservative. :P Like seriously folks: if you're not playing a TTRPG to tell some sort of...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Unless you engage in play in which effect does not follow cause, or characters don't have even half-cogent reasons for their actions...
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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 think that's what a lot of this thread has been about, when not getting sidetracked into arguments about definition and so on. I'll...
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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.
I can't help but think PF2 really didn't understand the value of defaulting mechanics like Take 10, I suspect largely as a result of...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think this is a very good point and it gets at an issue I had with a D&D adjacent game, PF2. In PF2, you can make a Medicine roll...
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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.
Feel free to push back on this, but I want to offer a slightly different view. What you're describing as a systemic feature of PbtA...
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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.
Sentences 2 and 3 don’t make sense together. If the world is “independent” of the PCs, then what monsters leap out is dependent on 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.
Oh, for sure. I've run into people with those play priorities before, it's just completely antithetical as to how I play...