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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
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Is it acceptable for the GM to forbid some outcomes and permit other outcomes, because the forbidden outcomes would be bad for the... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Like the (at this point numerous) examples of people mischaracterizing "fail forward" as somehow meaning "always succeed". Even though I...
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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.
Okay. I don't see why "Okay guys, I messed up, you shouldn't have been put in a situation like this, let's rewind and do things...
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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.
The things you describe are not low-stakes. These are high-stakes. They're not world-ending threats. But they are stakes that matter to...
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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 you are playing in a non-euro-western campaign then, completely outside of the typical D&D fantasy universe? Because I'm 99.9% sure...
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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.
Not really. I'd prefer that if something profoundly confusing, where I have pointed out a clear divergence between things that, up to...
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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.
But absolute zero-context "random chance"--which is what I assume you mean by "far more often than random chance would dictate"--almost...
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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 think it's a mistake to look at interesting fiction, and then - when thinking about how a RPG might replicate it - to bring in ideas...
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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 just... Okay? Like if you're going to tell me that you refuse to participate in further discussion, I can't really demand anything of...
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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.
Can you give an example or illustration? Because my experience is frequently the opposite, as far as D&D is concerned. For instance...
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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.
But by that assertion, literally all possible events COULD, maybe, potentially, possibly, someday, have some kind of consequence that...
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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 know about appeal. But as per some of my recent replies, your accounts of how Apocalypse World and some similar games work are...
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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.
The way to escape is to get through the door of the cage, presumably. You have created something where there are no points of failure...
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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.
The weird thing is this: we have a perfectly good phrase to describe a group of people making up fiction without being governed by...
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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.
No. They're not seasoned. They're travelling a path with a map in a somewhat wild area. They're fine as long as they stay on the...