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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, of course not... that was obviously a bit of an exaggeration on my part. But you've very clearly binned me with narrativists in the... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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So, what I find an issue is the implication that the bag of poo has a source other than the GM's desire for occasional poo. I don't... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure. The problem is that some folks here use language that at least seems to try to shift the responsibility, and/or make it sound...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Leaving aside agreement or disagreement, BY FAR the simplest type of game to run is a dungeon crawl using a system like B/X that is...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.."If"? You've stated my preferences more often than I have in this thread. You've also dodged a lot of what I've had to say. One...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That same loose hand is what can often make play less certain for the players. 5e was designed loosely so that GMs could plug the gaps...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah, but the difference here is that I've not found any hardcore narrativist games I actually like; in some respects their design...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Oh, well, it's a good question! So, look at the constraints that Dungeon World establishes. I don't have the text in front of me, but...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I mean… the fact that I actively run and play more trad oriented games as well as narrativist ones tends to be ignored because how could...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The rules that don't permit them. If the procedure for jumping is laid out, it is not given the GM to tell me I can or cannot jump over...
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hawkeyefan reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally, I try to approach a given game in the spirit it was intended, even if it's not quite my thing. Not everyone does, and that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
See my comment about constantly being lumped in with the more narrative group just because I share a couple positions with them. The...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So do most OSR games these days. Even D&D 2024 took a stab at it. To not have some degree of best practices, or dislike their presence...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's not an accurate description of what happens. What happens is that the player rolls well enough, and grabs the cup that others...
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hawkeyefan reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Have you not, yourself, been one of the people to articulate that sometimes, for the fun to be fun, we must take it seriously? That...