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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
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Yeah, I loved reading it...but if it were a supers game and I was a player? Yeah, no. -
FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No, then that would be crappy DMing, as we’ve all said. Once you establish something as true in the fiction, you’re supposed to build...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Often enough, it's a minor sub-genre on Youtube
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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.
Perhaps it depends what is mean by "risk mitigation" and "maximising the chance of succeeding at longer-term goals". But what you say...
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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.
Unknown even to the GM, and randomly determined. Whether or not the players were told of this random, yet-unrevealed time limit at 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.
Listen, I don’t have any kind of problem with a random encounter. But it’s not any different. And your rolling ahead of time doesn’t...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, because people keep posting about it.
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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.
So why are you using it to show that "fail forward" can't work?
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In the initial example (which came from a website) there was no mention that the break-in took place at night. That detail was added later.
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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 do bears wander in your world, but cooks never do?
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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. The "refutation" of fail forward by presenting examples of it being done badly - fully-staffed kitchens in the middle of the...
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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 last claim seems to me to be false. Or rather, to be true only if the GM is bad - that is, if in response to the info-gathering...
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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 goes to @Campbell's point. Someone who doesn't like "fail forward" gives an example of clumsy GMing - narrating the cook in the...
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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.
OK. So if the break-in is in the middle of the night when the house is quiet, why would the GM use a cook as the complication? As...
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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.
Again, this depends a lot on the game. This is one of the reasons that "nothing happens" is seen as an undesirable result by some...