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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
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A lot of stuff just doesn't seem to 'come off' in trad play. So, for instance, the highly technical Ocean's Eleven style of heist, where... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Why shouldn't the GM try to make their game more interesting and less likely to grind to a halt due to a bad roll?
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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.
And, just to point out one of the reasons why I favor this sort of 'consequence resolution' is that ACTUAL game situations are so...
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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.
Because we can’t fully replicate real life with a game. And I don’t think @Lanefan ’s take is accurate at all. Real life actions have...
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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.
I didn’t ask what else could I have done to still go on the date. I asked why I didn’t go on the date. The answer is obvious. 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.
But there's also no negative consequences for not opening the jar other than not opening the jar. Which means that, in a game, there's...
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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.
How does this make the second plan failing not a consequence of the first? In other words… why didn’t I go on the date? Forget 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.
This is very incorrect. The GM does not have to introduce anything that changes what the scene is about, and if they do introduce...
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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.
Yet you keep posting...
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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.
Saying I prefer a process because it feels more like real life (to me) and thus helps me suspend suspension of disbelief is fine. Using...
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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.
@AlViking Not connected in the deterministic way some people might prefer and not connected in any way whatsoever are very different...
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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.
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"...