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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
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Perhaps you would do that. But that doesn't mean literally any benefit you could phrase in the English language is now open to you! Why... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
100% this. I mean, I've actually missed phone calls because I was fumbling for my keys (or, in more contemporary times, because I'm...
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hawkeyefan reacted to MrBeens304's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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So all of this ridiculous back and forth over "consequences" of lock opening is just down to how granular you consider actions need to... -
hawkeyefan reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The definition of conflict resolution has morphed over time. In its original definition, all it means is that you're resolving...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, well it was a quick example that I thought folks could separate from gameplay and would then easily demonstrate the connections...
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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.
Which is exactly why I have such a dislike for this "game-as-artifact" concept. You can now fluidly move back and forth between...
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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 weird thing to me is that when I run or play in OSR, the goal is to completely avoid rolling for resolution by creating problem...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Clearly our protagonist in this scenario sucks at picking locks, so it's probably unreasonable to expect they'd save the people inside...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This was the big takeaway I had when I read about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in college.
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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.
But this is ridiculous, and is why @hawkeyefan feels he's taken crazy pills. It's obvious that a failure to open the door may be the...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That's what I disagree with. I think anyone looking at these descriptions that's not doing so through the lens of task-resolution...
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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.
Non-linearity in respect of consequences, like you describe in your last sentence, is pretty straightforward. It's bringing onto the...
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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 Haha.
I guess that's one possibility . . .
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I asked the same question because many people have avoided giving a straight answer, or, as in your case, somehow misinterpreted the...
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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.
For those of us not living under purposeful rocks, "clock" in TTRPG parlance has become widely used to denote a deliberate progress...