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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 don’t know if that’s accurate. What if the low climb roll indicated that it took you a really ling time to climb the cliff… and... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, that's the gig; given I first saw this happen in a traditional dungeon decades ago, it was going to be hard for me to buy into...
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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.
Yeah, I was just pointing out that “that’s not the way the real world works” is true of every RPG. Because often in these...
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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 what you mean by "story driven play". I mean, you're the guy who says that you want fiction over rules; yet you seem to be...
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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.
Your post shifts between talking about imaginary causation in the fiction, and the exercise of authorial power in the real world. The...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Heh. I did play Everquest for a very short while many, many years ago. But, I do recall dying a HELL of a lot, even in the "easy"...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Except that you're the DM. Contriving any sort of connection as to why the NPC knows something is ludicrously easy. And, you can...
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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 this then means there is no such thing as "traditional GM" stuff. There's just what SableWyvern does, what Lanefan does, what Micah...
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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.
No, it isn't. It is literally the most important thing. The same goes for all your arguments about how important it is that characters...
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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.
Is it acceptable for the GM to forbid some outcomes and permit other outcomes, because the forbidden outcomes would be bad for the...
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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.
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...