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FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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You're taking that passage a bit out of context. There's a house that the PC is sneaking into. You, as the GM, have an idea of who or... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
IIRC, the original idea for this is that you had to climb the cliff to save the friend. If the friend is just waiting at the top 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.
This is the post that I was responding to: Given that most moves/abilities in 5e D&D pertain to combat, and that combat in 5e D&D...
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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.
Why wouldn't it? Where is it laid up in RPG heaven that passion and motivation are things that don't matter in RPG action resolution?
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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 didn't realise that combat - one of the most quintessential D&D-ish things, and the thing that I mostly see talked about whenever I...
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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.
Causality gets broken routinely - as in my example, A gets to duck behind cover at the end of their 6 seconds of action, and 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.
To be clear: I am not complaining about turn-by-turn combat resolution. I'm just pointing out that it doesn't conform to forwards...
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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.
As I posted, why do I care how some random website defines "fail forward" when I know how the actual RPG invented by one of those who...
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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 there is. We resolve all of A's actions, including their movement. Then we go back 6 seconds and resolve all of B's actions. 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.
I fully accept your preferences. What personally bothers me is the way you leap to conclusions about how these techniques are used in...
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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.
Right. I posted this about a month ago upthread: More recently I posted that examples of bad narration don't show that good narration is...
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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.
But it was said we only roll if there are stakes. What are the stakes? What does it mean to unsuccessfully climb a wall? But not...
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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.
Huh? The whole of D&D combat resolution ignores forward-facing causality. Person A does their 6 seconds worth of stuff. Then we go back...
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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.
People are claiming, in the abstract and without any evidence adduced from actual play examples, that Burning Wheel - one of the...
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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 don’t think that’s in any way what anyone was advocating for. I think you’ve misunderstood quite a bit.