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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
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I would say it’s more like how most movies handle it. You watch the character get into a car and pull away… then they cut to a scene of... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Right, I'm not really super critical of trad play. @Gilladian ran a couple of 5e campaigns for us that I would call 'pretty trad'...
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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 my case, the same thing happened with the shift from AD&D to Rolemaster. It's not a coincidence - despite all their technical...
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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.
Yes, I know. That posts says nothing about "allowing" or "stopping" anything. Correct. That's a statement about what I look for and...
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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 Like.
Eh, I think my experience is that you don't need a ton of filler. Narrativist games also tend to be pretty strong on thematic coherence...
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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 Like.
Eh, I agree with @pemerton here, 2, socially conformant game-facilitating play is extremely prevalent. Many of the old classic pitfalls...
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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 Like.
None of us are telling the players what their characters should be doing. But, if we're playing BitD and the players have decided their...
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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'm not shifting anything. The authority that we're talking about... my preference for keeping the game moving and focused... is...
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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 Like.
Well, I think my only response to this is annecdote. Our 1KA game had 3 PCs. Mine had a goal of opposing the dominance of Odu over the...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Stalker0's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) My Take on the Modron (Houserule) with Like.
A while ago, a did a take on what I considered "True Slaad", aka an enemy that is actually chaotic enough to represent the described...
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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.
Yes. I've spoken a great deal in this and other threads about procedures of play. Generally I have been trying to steer the discussion...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Unfortunately, they told him the opposite. His one non-Michael Bay film « Pain and Gain » was his biggest flop, even though I rather...
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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.
What @hawkeyefan said. "Exciting" is a useful shorthand for "interesting, exciting, emotionally resonant, etc".' @zakael19 got at...
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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 even if you emphasize this, several people have responded as though such comments aren't there. Consider that I wrote the...
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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 Like.
Verisimilitude and feeling real are not what exploration-oriented play does better. Puzzle solving and digging into details are what it...