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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
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Sure. Who is disagreeing with that? I am saying that neither is more or less "quantum". They both involve authoring here and now... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But it's hardly a criticism of Burning Wheel, or Apocalypse World, or Marvel Heroic RP, that these are not particularly well-suited for...
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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 wasn't talking about restaurant or hotel or theatre reservations. I was talking about establishing fiction in a RPG. Forgetting 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.
Yes. I also think that many of those RPGers have not really grappled with the tension that arises - which I noted in my post - 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.
It's worth noting, this is why I always say that I support specifically genuine player enthusiasm, which I have always defined (or at...
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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.
A lovely sentiment that never, ever results in terrible things. And folks wonder why I have a skeptical view of the so-called "CvC"...
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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.
But I was told, repeatedly, by several people in this thread that it cannot be illusionism. That that would be a violation of the trust...
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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.
Why do we need to go through all of that rigmarole? We already have a roll. It already tells us something went wrong. And, again, 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.
Food would not be delivered by the cook(s) regardless. It would either be carried up to the person in their private rooms by their...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...
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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.
Yeah, it is surprising. For the same reason that the GM needs to come up with stuff on the fly… because you can’t come up with...
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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.
I'm actually happy with players creating backstory and whatnot dynamically during play in order to relate to stuff that is happening...
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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.
Sure. I just expect that there's no game that has it all done before play. The players don't have every detail about their characters...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I was thinking of a case where the group goes through their old village in the course of the game, and suddenly who and what their...
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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.
See this is the kind of thing I have come to expect (in my own games) to come up quite a bit during play. The idea that a player would...