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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
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I'm saying its not really good at any one thing, because it tries to do too many, and is carrying decades old baggage in doing most of... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Having to provide a statblock for a color inclusion like a pet cat just so it can have a chance to kill an ogre seems "artificially...
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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.
Narrate something relevant as the DM, or ask for a check. The cat is background flavor, not something relevant to the resolution. It's...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Who said force? They come up naturally in my experience. Or just go on in, knowing that between their own creativity and the GM not...
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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'd suggest that's because very few of those people particularly care or cared about simulation except in the broadest sense.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Your particular desires really can't be something anyone but you can focus on in these discussions.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Simulation of a world with processes and physics that results in matching a genre is not cleanly separable from genre simulation.
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
As is usually the case, that depends on what you are simulating. If you are simulating most published fictions, even those not tied to...
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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.
Fighter 6: Ability Score Improvement Fighter 14: Ability Score Improvement Fighters are literally better at improving their physical...
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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.
"6. If your abstractions do not match your fictional world, de-abstract until they do." You are demanding that the fictional world hew...
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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 wasn't a request for perfection. It was pointing out that the specific thing you speak of is, in fact, part of the current system and...
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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.
And yet they do. They literally do. In 5e as much as any WotC edition--indeed, moreso! You change the nature of your physical 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.
I don't think it's anywhere near that ambitious. Remember that the skill challenge and the combat have completely different goals. 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.
Certainly not, since the claim isn't true. It's often repeated though. Keep in mind, Lanefan is of the opinion that a creature cannot...
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FFrozenNorth replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Way to miss the point. I was responding to a poster that advocated returning to species-as-class, then you respond with a paradigm that...