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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
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In game texts I have really only seen bypassing encounters addressed in regard to games where you specifically receive XP for overcoming... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Exactly. If the DM was a holodeck, than of course it would be much easier to play in a fully-immersive, "react as the character"...
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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.
In real life, I'm not dependent on getting 100% of my information secondhand, and having every single one of my choices filtered through...
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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.
Yet I find Ironsworn quite fun--and it is, in my opinion at least, even more of a sandbox than the "traditonal GM" approach being...
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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.
Would it? I assure you for a HMTW game it absolutely does not. Again, I read so many of your posts and I’m struck over and over at how...
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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.
The three-prongs: 1) The players are not given prompts by the GM - players have no clue what to choose to do, and "anything they want"...
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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.
Wasn't this supposed to be an example that might be at home in Apocalypse World play? (That's my recollection, but perhaps I've lost my...
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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.
This seems to be a statement of the dispositions/default actions of certain people. To me, it seems rather efficient/rational for a...
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hawkeyefan reacted to jayoungr's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
An anime that can best be summed up by this bit of imaginary dialogue: "Hey guys, I'm thinking of running a sequel to that epic...
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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.
A wonderful anime that indulges and subverts a lot of JRPG tropes; which are of course deeply descended from early D&D tropes as well...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, I don’t leave it up to the players. What I do depends on the game. But if the players don’t follow the footprints, then I don’t...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..What’s Frieren? I think you may have already said so, but I want to be sure. As for the shift… yeah, it’s not that surprising at this...
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hawkeyefan reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't necessarily agree that it doesn't matter -- the two modes of play (with a map and without) are different, and moving from one to...
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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.
One of my favorite pieces of advice from His Majesty the Worm is to just give your players the dungeon map. Sure, keep off secret rooms...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Technically those are all encounters, albeit of fairly widely varying levels of significance and-or danger. 5e wants "encounter" to...