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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've noticed a distinct sense of superiority about "traditional GM" play, about "simulation", about a bunch of things in this thread... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You can call it a false equivalency all you like, that doesn't make it so. You have to actually show why it's a false equivalency if you...
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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.
No he's not! In the paragraph I quoted he (i) mentions Fate (a game which most naturally supports simulationist play) and (ii) expressly...
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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 idea that's it silly if a player establishes it, but perfectly reasonable if the GM establishes it, is to me a manifestation of an...
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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'm not calling you a hypocrite. I'm just expressing some incredulity at the apparent gap between what you say you prefer, and the RPG...
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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'm telling you what actual goal he had, in the actual play of the game that I'm reporting on. There is no "simulation" to be broken. A...
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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.
It''s not a question of how much or how little time it takes. It's a question of the result. "Nothing happens" means that the game just...
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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.
Okay? Not sure what that has to do with what I said. This seems to imply that the world waits for the character to decide what to do...
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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.
Doing that action is quite literally choosing pacing over realism. Like that's the exact thing you're doing. "We know you'll succeed...
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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.
But at the table they don't change. They become more precisely specified. OK. I'm not familiar with that usage of the phrase.
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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.
Except in combat? When everything - the time sequence of actions ("stop motion" initiative), the nature and consequences of actions...
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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.
Players do this routinely in all RPGs. A player, in D&D, who chooses to attack an Orc is taking their PC's life against the Orc's. No...
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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.
Well, you'll want to talk to @Lanefan about that, as he's rejected both the idea that failure needs to have any meaning, and the idea...
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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.
Again, I think that this atomization of tasks is something that’s only being done for game purposes. It seems like a very unnatural way...
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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 guess I don't understand how this counts as, in your words, "taking partial control over the narrative"... ...when the whole time...