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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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That's fine. They don't have to. I'm not asking them to. I'm asking you and others to either present other styles of play in an accurate... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Then....don't? Personal dislike of a technique is completely orthogonal to the technique's validity.
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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.
The "failure" is the metagame result of not meeting the target number, not so much the narrative result. I just thought of another fun...
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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 mean, I think trying to GM scenes such that "everything makes sense" is kind of the point! Much like rolling an encounter on a table...
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hawkeyefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Daggerheart defines it like this FAILING FORWARD In Daggerheart, every time you roll the dice, the scene changes in some way. There is...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think that skill at lockpicking also includes how fast and how quietly you can pick a lock... these things are an important component...
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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.
What really “fails forward” IMO is the scene and the fiction. It’s not “fail succeed,” it’s a conscious avoidance of “nothing happens.”
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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.
If your issue is that fail forward means we're no longer in task resolution / sim mode, cool. You do you. An example of what fail...
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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.
With the qualifier that there is no objective "makes sense", yes. The lengthy discussion of a single example has largely overridden the...
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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.
Yep. I, personally, can't square "I want the setting to feel like it exists" with "Rolling a cook on an encounter table, instead of...
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hawkeyefan reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But they weren’t. They were only there because the GM made a random encounter roll and rolled 82: cook. And the GM only made the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But you are only considering circumstances in which it DOESN’T make sense. That is the point. If the situation was that a cook was...
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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 just didn't find, in practice, that all that much really WAS set out ahead of time, or really could be extrapolated from what was set...
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hawkeyefan reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It seems well within the trad approach for the DM to roll a random encounter because of the rogue’s lock picking failure. So how is the...
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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.
Or to ask an even broader question, could you enjoy a trad-style game if you knew the DM was just making everything as they want along...