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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
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@AlViking Not connected in the deterministic way some people might prefer and not connected in any way whatsoever are very different... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this is a misunderstanding of fail forward. The GM does not have to "introduce something that changes what the entire scene is...
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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, this is you reading something into what I actually posted that’s not there. @Lanefan claimed that his preferred method works 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.
I don't know what you mean by "a dodge" - what do you think I'm dodging? The roll was a roll to read runes. The fact that it is...
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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.
It is in D&D 2024! As I've noted multiple times in this thread, it beats the drum that the DM should be anchoring on "fun for the table"...
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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.
Going per example... "Cook screaming" runs most afoul of "Make a move that follows" and, to a limited but very important extent, "Be a...
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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.
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...