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FFrozenNorth reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Setting aside that there is surely more than one cleric in many settlements, I assume exactly the constraints on clerics that the latest... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
As I have posted, I understand your assertion. I disagree with it. The fact that the player's action establishes backstory elements that...
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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 player can't "dictate reality". They can contribute to a shared fiction. That's called playing a RPG. You seem to be thinking of...
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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.
Performing mental arithmetic, and working out what fiction is dictated by feeding those numbers into the rules engine, is not the same...
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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. The player is playing a RPG. As part of that, the player authored some fiction. That's what happens when someone plays a RPG! The...
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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.
From the post where I introduced the example: If you haven't read the example, or noted that the action declaration is about reducing or...
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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. That's just wrong. There is no "reversal of causality". There is the use of dice to track other correlations. Eg the...
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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.
Really? I don't think @Lanefan gets that the episode of play, involving the runes, was not from map-and-key based, puzzle-solving play...
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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.
Quite a way upthread, I asked you why you seem unable or unwilling to talk about RPGing done in accordance with different principles 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.
Well, what you posted that I responded to was this: "My main issue with the runes example is creating the meaning of the runes by 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.
Someone who has not yet been given an order but expects one. For example, a military officer assigned to assassinate a specific target...
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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. No more than you, as a GM writing up a dungeon description, are "changing the reality" of the imaginary world you are writing about...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, but also, that's beside the point; in D&D clerics can change their spells with a long rest (or the characters could have sought a...
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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.
By telling all the other participants that I (as my PC) am picking my nose, and getting them to agree. If all the players agree that my...
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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.
Okay. More than a little frustrating, then, for the very people who took others to task for allegedly unclear phrasing, to then use...