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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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I see this as "adding to one's experience" in the same way that clarifying that you don't have blue eyes, you have grey eyes (to... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
How much Apocalypse World, or Dungeon World, or Burning Wheel have you played? You keep making these conjectures, but they don't fit at...
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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.
Suppose that the player, as their character, knows that there is a sniper nearby. And they try to read a sitch to get a handle on 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.
Why not? Is this view based on a close reading of the MHRP rulebook? Thankfully, no such thing happens! The character's hopes don't...
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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 is being skirted around? I've been clear about resolution processes, about low- vs high-stakes stuff, etc, throughout this thread...
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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 take it that you mean by this I prefer not to play RPGs in which those sorts of connections affect the roll. Or are you stating a...
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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.
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...
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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.
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...