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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
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My experience is this: that someone (eg you, or @Micah Sweet) posts that you don't want any constraints on the GM. I reply taking that... -
hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I really appreciate that in a game like Stonetop (derived from Dungeon World), the entire useful core rules (the Basic Moves etc) fit on...
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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.
My experience in this respect is different. For instance, suppose that, in AD&D, a player casts Transmute Rock to Mud on a cliff, with...
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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.
Full disclosure: probably about 90% of my time at the table has been as a player, but I've always read the books to the point that I was...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In our most recent game the PCs had to provide an argument to change the mind of individual NPCs out of a group (a Council) on any...
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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.
Agreed. There are other dimensions to this too. For instance, look at Burning Wheel. To make a RPG work like BW, there need to be dice...
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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.
Something very funny: people talking about how they’ve played with the same group of players for decades and you should get to know...
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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.
Personally I think this is quite inaccurate as far as Apocalypse World is concerned. (I don't have any general view on "PbtA' as a...
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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.
I would suggest that running roleplaying games in a conventional way comes with certain expectations and at least in the case of D&D...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Just something I want to comment on trying to catchup on this thread... We have posters discussing how they do not like the...
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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.
I think basically this view is, in part, outdated. Techniques and approaches to running RPGs, and thus the associated game designs, have...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I would expect that, given how different rules can be from one game to the next, it's more about the way to handle rules than specific...
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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.
Frankly I see the dislike as more ideological. My experience here is that, at least in this forum, there's no appetite for an...
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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...
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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.
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...