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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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But realism, verisimilitude, etc. are the literal, explicit words used to describe this. Over and over and over and over. That it is not... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The reason why the lock pick attempt might be louder on a failed roll is very simple; it’s because one way to fail at lockpicking would...
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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.
..... Max, you're still doing it. You are still asserting that someone is saying "OH SO YOU WANT THINGS TO BE BORING???" when they...
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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 mean, it's not just him. The thread at large has consistently treated it as such; the GM does not touch the character in any way, it...
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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, there’s plenty of legacy elements of D&D I like just fine. But there are parts of the game that have changed, and parts that have...
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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.
This I can certainly grant. A lot of GMs--I'd say at least a third--genuinely either don't realize or don't care that their 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.
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...
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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.
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...