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hawkeyefan reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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How is it not playing the game right? All prep is being honoured. All mechanical interactions are being resolved in accordance with the... -
hawkeyefan 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 what you intend by "fail forward at a mechanical level". The mechanical level is rolling some dice and identifying a...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I've certainly used it in 3.5, PF, 4e, and 5e. It's fairly trivial to use. "Oh, you failed your arcana check to identify the runes...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That was not the situation, though. It wasn't that there were no consequences and the character could try again and again. What I did...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Like I said, Max... time to shrug and move on. Very little of what you said above makes sense to me. All I can do is recommend that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok, let's back up a second shall we? We're all DM's. All of us here are running games. So, that means that every single poster here...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..If the thief succeeds on the roll and opens the lock successfully, then the cook is either not there because she wasn't brought by the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Have you read the rules text (which I posted upthread)? Here is is again: So, as you can see, it is not redundant at all. It...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The thing is, you're assuming none of us HAVE played with DM's like what the other side claims as priorities. Heck, I used to BE a DM...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think it would be quite interesting for people on the opposite side of many discussions to get together and play couple of sessions...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ugh. The worst of all worlds. The only way I can convince an NPC is if I game the DM and hope that whatever reading I have of the DM...
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hawkeyefan reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I just want to state for the record that I would very happily try games run by either @hawkeyefan or @Maxperson
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hawkeyefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
When I am setting up the scenarios I think the characters could face I am not being neutral. I'm trying to set up challenging and...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I curse the name of the person that taught you what a Red Herring is. No, because on a success, the thief was quiet enough to not draw...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, the context for make the character's lives not boring is Apocalypse World instructing the GM to have every decision they make be in...