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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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You are asserting that there is a town entails there is a farrier. But this is not true. Some towns, at some times, don't have farriers... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's not about being "nitpicky". @TheFirebird said that the issues I mentioned don't arise in their games. And I replied. Do you agree...
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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 just results in disagreements over who fired the first shot, in my experience. Person A thinks action X was totally cool, person B...
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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 believe I spent at least two posts acknowledging this problem. Not the cases I'm talking about, What if I don't care at the moment...
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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 think its situational, but a lot of the cases I agree; its not only gamist, its sloppy gamism that could be done other ways. (There...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally I'm not a fan of no re-tries unless the fiction informs the no-retry. I'd argue the no-retries principle is gamist not sim...
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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.
Why would it happen on success or failure? I talked about a "diegetic reason" - that is, a reason that comes from the shared fiction...
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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 if your RPGing involves knowledge checks or not. If it does, then presumably one upshot of a successful knowledge check is...
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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've got no issue with how you did this in your game. But you also post stuff like this: And you use this sort of thing to criticise...
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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. Who is disagreeing with that? I am saying that neither is more or less "quantum". They both involve authoring here and now...
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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 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"...