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FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Because it's exhausting to have conservative D&D players show up to all sorts of places across the internet going "I hate X new thing... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you roll low, you fail to gain your objective/intent/etc. You lose. Your loss means something new needs to happen. To leave the...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
All these posts boil down to is restating "I don't like it because..." over and over with different contrived straw arguments, willfully...
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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.
Someone saying the contrast you are drawing is the wrong one to draw is not the same as saying our games are the same. They are not...
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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.
What 'actually is' here that's being changed???!!! There's no real runes, there's not even a fiction of what these pretend runes...
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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.
Because in many cases, that preference is based on an incomplete or incorrect understanding of the rules. Look at all the people still...
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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.
There was no "hope check". There was a roll to read the runes.
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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.
What got modified? When a player decides, say in the second session, that their PC's mother was a soldier in her youth, they are not...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Putting aside the political connotations of the word, conservatism is simply about wanting to maintain some form of status quo, so if...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
i have to at least agree with @EzekielRaiden point with this particular bit, just using the spells you already know how to cast, no...
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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. I had presumed that. I don't really buy that the time--what, a minute? two minutes?--taken to pick a lock is relevant for this...
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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.
Do you make your players roll to choose which path they take in the labyrinth? Because this seems a textbook example of something where...
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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.
My argument on this is: 1. Yes, that's the description. It is pure "informed ability" as TVTropes would put it. Players simply do not...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to MrBeens304's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Given that's how you add in contextualisation for a player learning fireball, do you do that for every new spell the player learns? What...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This makes me wonder. If alignment were rare by default, nearly everyone would share your frustration. If alignment were common by...