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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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Going per example... "Cook screaming" runs most afoul of "Make a move that follows" and, to a limited but very important extent, "Be a... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You aren't helping your case with such quibbles. This indicates that even if the players act, it may still be a total absence of change...
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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 mean, you've described what sounds, to me, like some...pretty formulaic play? I don't know about you, but having things boil down to...
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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.
The rolls etc happen at the table. Not in the fiction. The rolls affect what we at the table agree to imagine together. They don't...
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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.
Of course, the real situation in most cases is that things are way more complicated than the "good gaming"/"bad gaming" binary. E.g...
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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.
Which reads quite plainly to me as a pretty passive player being corralled into doing something incredibly stupid, specifically 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.
Except it isn't. Going to the bathroom has no mechanical effect, nor is it a retrocausal explanation which has been expressly forbidden...
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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 was the game I was speaking about when you replied to me. I'm afraid I'm not going to spin on a dime to "generic TTRPG" or...
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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.
Had the player not asked about the farrier, because of their hope, it would not have come up and you would not have narrated the farrier.
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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 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...
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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.
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...