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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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The sense of being there, in character, is deeply important to me (like maybe most important thing at times). However, that also... -
hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I feels this ties back to something @AlViking said upthread, where he believed that Trad-gamers try immerse themself into the character...
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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, good grief, can we have an end to this whole "so and so said objectively" nonsense? As a rhetorical technique I now declare it dead...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you want to be ever so slightly charitable, the failure caused the guard to harass our singer. I highly doubt that anyone narrates...
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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.
4e is really just the culmination of a trend of design in the 3e era. Not only do later 3.5 supplements clearly experiment with systems...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..For you it may be. But I’m not asking you to adopt this method for your game. I’m explaining the way these games work because you asked...
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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 fact that something is a revelation to a person - that could be a film, a piece of technology, a vista, a romantic relationship...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay. I’ll make sure to quote this in the future when you complain that people are inconsistent with their definitions! Any metric the...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, no… the quotes were around the “metagame”… a concept that makes no sense for those games. It’s all part of the game. Insert a...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes. I had not recalled the example, and so reread it when it was linked by @AlViking … and there it was, clearly stated. Not sure why...
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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, @FrogReaver and @Maxperson are all asserting that I said or implied that I disliked D&D prior to 4e. @Faolyn is pointing out that...
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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.
If something doesn't give all that one wanted, perhaps it gives some of it. Perhaps it surprises by giving something different. Perhaps...
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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.
Most of the time when we attempt something IRL that carries risk, we know what the risks are at least to a general level. If you go...
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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 would have to go back and look, but I think the 3e DMG2 and MM4 and MM5 were moving in the direction of more simplified stat blocks...
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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.
Let's suppose a game, let's call it a PbtA, where the interest is centered outside the characters. That is, while the action is still...