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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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Then maybe not every lockpicking needs to be the result of a roll? -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you're going to point out things that insult you, shouldn't you also point out things that are insulting to others as well?
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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.
There have been people who have very strongly hinted at the inferiority of narrative methods. As one example (I'm not going through the...
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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.
Yes, it can work either way in a game. But that's why I was trying to get people to look at it in real life examples. How we would...
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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.
OK, you got me. 15,000+ posts of a slew of trad GMs oozing 'I own this part of the game' and you post a quote from John Harper that...
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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.
There have been lots of people who have said, or effectively said, that it's wrong, stupid, railroading, pointless, "quantum", to play...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You guys are being too literal with this. If he was trying to pass his driving test, he was probably in high school or not too long out...
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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.
What I'm saying is, you constructed a system that no one here would use or defend. Meaning, the difference was manufactured by that...
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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.
It seems to me that you have created your own problem by inserting this assumption when it is not, generally speaking, true? That is, I...
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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.
Sure. This is no different from any other action declaration, at least where the GM is obliged to honour the outcome. Yes they did! They...
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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 learned it from the 4e rulebooks. Read the DMG's discussion of combat and non-combat encounters (especially skill challenges), and...
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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 don’t think that only one side is acknowledging this. Everyone I recall posting in favor of Fail Forwars acknowledged that it’s about...
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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.
And yet in essentially everything we do, we do exactly this. A caused B, B caused C, C caused D, and yet we refer to what courts call 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.
That did not answer the question. How is this a major fact about the world? But that isn't something happening. By definition, it's...
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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.
@Enrahim I'm glad what I had to say has been helpful to you, though I didn't have a lot to respond to overall in the post. So I'm...