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Ggban007 reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Yeah, kinda same for me. It is frustrating how these discussions go: "I think I'd prefer a tad more simulationism than a game X offers"... -
Ggban007 reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The script used by the builders of Moria is explicitly called runic in the text. The Book of Marzabul is written in at least two...
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Ggban007 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
For the record, I have both played and run GURPS 3e and 4e. OK, problem number one here is that you are misunderstanding what I mean...
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Ggban007 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I have known that I am okay with mild funky cheese in the context of hot sauce for decades. But it is pretty specific and limited. If...
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Ggban007 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You're a lich. You'll be around for millennia, and spend centuries contemplating your shriveled navel. You're gonna forget stuff. Or...
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Ggban007 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Why do people write down important passwords and leave them on a post-it on their monitors?
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Ggban007 reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Or the visitor was a long time ago and was writing in something readable for their time. Or the original builders put the map in place...
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Ggban007 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This comes across as either "whataboutism" or a simple failure to realize that humans aren't 100% consistent. I, personally, have no...
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Ggban007 reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Just to clarify, I don't see my example as something to like or dislike. Rather it poses a question: what in the core D&D game text...
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Ggban007 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
We might break this down in a more clear way. For the orc in a fight - all the abstracted events (dodging, footwork, and so on) that...
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Ggban007 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Your post just upthread of this one, together with the rest of this post, strongly imply that this is exactly the issue: I mean, you...
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Ggban007 reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you noticed you were cherry-picking you wouldn't do it. That's the point. As I wrote above To participate in TTRPG is to serially...
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Ggban007 reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It illustrates that your objections aren't based on the way these rules systems actually work. They're internal, not imposed by the...
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Ggban007 reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Discworld alignments with Like.
Where other men think about Rome every day, I think about Discworld, which I suspect is healthier all around. Anyway, while I was...
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Ggban007 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Too much effort for me to try and go back to original one. But I think two differing levels of conjecture, with higher probability: 1...