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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
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I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success the... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don’t see why it would be, though I wouldn’t say there could be absolutely no reason to do so. But the idea was reasonable, didn’t...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No man. It has been said time and time again in this thread that fail forward moves the story forward, but the specific task can be...
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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.
No. In D&D combat, no one decides who lives and who dies. A mechanical process is used, and all the participants are agreed to go along...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
(y) I try to run my games that way. There may be times where I mess that up, but I try to give as many details as I can about the...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Oh it may even have been me! I have no doubt that it was brought up. I just don’t know in what context, or who brought it up first and...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, this is what I did. I said “this roll isn’t so much about making it to the top as it is about how fast you can do so because 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 Like.
Have you ever described a player, in D&D, who rolls a successful attack as having decided that they hit their oppoinent? Have you ever...
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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 see this in games that explicitly have metacurreny that allow it (Fabula Points in Fabula Ultima come to mind, FATE as well maybe?)...
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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. I post about Apocalypse World and (less frequently) Dungeon World based on my knowledge of them. I've thought a lot about AW...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, the GM decided based on the idea the player expressed as the hope of their character… which was reasonable and didn’t contradict...
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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.
And "don't be a weasel" comes from Mouse Guard. And is also affirmed in the BW Adventure Burner. There is a degree of...
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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. This is the whole point of the MHRP resolution engine: the player never has to leave actor stance.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..We could classify the trad GM’s process as quantum as well. That until he writes that the Amulet of Agonar is in the chest in Room 8, it...
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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 makes everything that is unknown "quantum superposition"! Which is not what quantum superposition is. I mean, I don't know -...