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hawkeyefan reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I think I see where you might come from. Do you consider the GM a player of the game? In that case there is a case to be made that... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It’s not bad at all. It’s an essential part of play. I brought it up because @Micah Sweet asked why place constraints on GMs. And the...
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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'll have more in the morning, but I do not endorse the idea that lore/setting is story or that all GMs are storytellers.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, of course we are. Constraints are just limitations. A player’s authority in an RPG is limited. How it is limited may vary from...
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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.
As a player and GM, I'll ask leading/provocative/trivial questions to that character. If I'm asking as a player, they might be more...
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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.
I've grown to really value the combination of meta-channel openness and atmosphere of inquiry the games engines I'm currently running...
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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.
The second sentence is true if, when the GM is GMing, they use your favoured methods. But when I GM, generally I get to experience...
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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.
I get to experience the story we create in the moment every time I sit down to run any of my games. I quite often truly have no idea...
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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.
Im looking forward to running DH for the group I have that's currently playing through the fairly optimistic Forged in teh Dark game...
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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, for me, I like that when I'm the MC of Apocalypse World that I am not in charge of how things go. I like that I'm more of a...
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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.
Ohh that's a good framing! Yeah, this. This is why I ask questions of the players and the world and leave where that's going to go open...
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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.
They're closely related. That's why I generally prefer RPGing where the players exercise a degree of control over what scenes are...
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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.
Right. The illusion of geography is similar to - not necessarily identical to, depending on details of how the illusion is established...
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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.
You keep posting as if the only reason the GM would be subject to rules any stricter than introduce whatever fiction you think is worth...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I never said “the game is better with fewer constraints on players”. Depends on which game and the purpose of play. All I did was ask...