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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
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Well, I don't see how you could call a 'hidden rules' game really a game. It is simply an exercise in puzzle-solving, at best, or a... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And yet those low level PCs survive in this 'most dangerous' part of the city. Either the city just ain't that dangerous (for PCs 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.
Just wanted to note that this is an example of something I consider to be perfectly legitimate use of "common sense" and "[GM's]...
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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 Like.
I had a player in a game once who decided, out of the blue, that they were going to offer every goblinoid they saw a job. A legitimate...
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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.
So are you rolling for coronaries every time someone gets stressed? After all, that's happened to young athletes on occasion. So I'm...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, with my 4 free hours of game time available per month, I have invested in this character, and rolling a 1 trying to scale the cliff...
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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 Like.
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...
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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 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...