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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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My experiences as both player and GM have been very different than that. I find that there can often be such discrepancies in... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure, perfect language is impossible. I don't think that means it's now pointless to say "hey, that specific word? that one single...
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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.
Sure, but that's exactly what I'm arguing. Almost all of us have one or two metagame things we excuse because they're useful, or...
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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.
That's a really antagonistic and jaundiced view of what I wrote. Like that is actively reading the most hostile things into what I said...
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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.
It is absolutely metagaming. It is the insertion of an incredibly convenient captive in the very next room of the dungeon, not because...
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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 did not. But I have now! Frustrated? Probably not, unless they were really insistent about something I had heard, given it a genuine...
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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.
They weren't big deal changes in terms of how radical they were (abandoning the 6 stats, using a dice pool instead of a d20, no classes...
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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.
He doesn't seem to think so, at least not to the point of saying he disliked them. Maybe 1e-3e didn't give him what he felt should have...
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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.
The sense of being there, in character, is deeply important to me (like maybe most important thing at times). However, that also...
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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.
He... didn't say objectively. I went back over the past 15 pages ago and he never said that word. He said they needed to be firebombed...
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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 Like.
Oh, good grief, can we have an end to this whole "so and so said objectively" nonsense? As a rhetorical technique I now declare it dead...
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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 Like.
I just don't consider what you are saying here to be some sort of axiom of RPGs. Classic skill-test D&D certainly included some hidden...
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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.
But y'all don't seem to believe that he didn't hate the other editions.
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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.
If you want to be ever so slightly charitable, the failure caused the guard to harass our singer. I highly doubt that anyone narrates...
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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.
For you it may be. But I’m not asking you to adopt this method for your game. I’m explaining the way these games work because you asked...