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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 am willing to assume good faith on the part of the GM. If, and ONLY if, we also assume good faith on the part of the players. As you... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Dragonlance. I was very clear about that. Dragonlance is the version of D&D that has limited-to-zero-death rules.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
At bare minimum in order to get to the point where we can even roll the dice we need to establish the following: fictional positioning...
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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 offered one not too long ago in a thread that touched on this topic. In Stonetop, there is a playbook called The Heavy. They're a...
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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, we know. Yet others may find it desirable to do so. That you don't is both clear and also irrelevant to that. And that concern...
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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.
Though as I've noted before there's at best some selective pleading for people who play D&D and object to "gamist" structures; the game...
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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, given what we actually do see in 5e, I don't think there really is any room for debate, but I'm willing to leave it at "we agree...
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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.
That would be the conservative argument, yes.
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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.
Quite fair; my issue is not that bad outcomes shouldn't be possible (I always endeavor to do the same). Rather, in the context of the...
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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.
Sometimes they don't. Many times, they're (or I'm!) thinking as creatively as possible, and applying something outside of the explicit...
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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.
To me, this is a pretty odd claim. Particularly given that I know some of the processes that you use: eg rolling some dice to see who...
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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.
Is this based on your reading of the text, or on the opinions of others (eg @Maxperson) who haven't read the text. Like, what is...
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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.
Wait, so now players signing up for something is an absolute must-assume, it has to be true, and a player that then reevaluates is being...
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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.
They never ask if X thing would work? They never experiment? That's frankly shocking. If that isn't needed in the former, why would it...
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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.
Oooh boy. Gonna have to completely reject that penultimate sentence of this bit. Death is not a structural necessity. There are plenty...