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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
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But they never SHOW experimenting with the two spells. They never SHOW "developing" the new spell. It never happens "on-camera". It is... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This never occurs in Dungeon World--and, IMO, it should be extremely rare anywhere else. And now you're doing what all sorts of OSR...
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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 that explicitly ISN'T the same thing. That's them creatively using the spells they already have. It is NOT experimentally developing...
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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 thought I was pretty clear. If you can't get players to agree to the rules and tone of the game, to the point that you can't play the...
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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.
If the people you play with won't act like adults to the point you can't actually play some games with them, why game with them at all?
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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.
That's why a major part of narrative games is the idea that the players are working together with the GM to create the story, and as...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Didn't the whole cook thing come up as a "fail forward" or "success with complications" example? This seems more like critical failure...
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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'm going to guess that these were pretty short cliffs and banks, if you were a kid, not the twenty, fifty, hundred, or even...
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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 dunno, I'm a little bit surprised that it is the posters who profess to favour "simulationist" play that are making all these posts...
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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.
No, but as @Gimby has explained, it's collaborative. This is all agreed upon and then the roll is made to see how it goes. If the...
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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.
But that describes a very small number of climbs; the vast majority can be managed by most people if they can be managed at all, given...
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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.
It's not an example of "narrativist games". It's an example of MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic. Apocalypse World is a "narrativist game" - as...
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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.
Well, at least that last bit is definitely one of the frustrations I've had thus far, and one of the reasons I ask for things like...
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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.
I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success 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.
No. In D&D combat, no one decides who lives and who dies. A mechanical process is used, and all the participants are agreed to go along...