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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think you are partially right about not wanting the character to look incompetent. Which, generally speaking, is a good approach, I'd... -
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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As an aside on the crumbling cliff thing - why would we narrate such a thing in the first place? We know it's to provide a narrative... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I’m sorry… it just reminded me of something a friend of mine used to do that frustrated me. This friend of mine, he’d make some kind...
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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.
The authoring of fiction in Narrativist play is quite structured, in general. For example in DW the 'blacksmith scenario' could proceed...
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hawkeyefan reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Good call. I use this distinction all the time as a basic technique. One is very much in the vein of Apocalypse World where various...
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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 posted something about this not too far upthread.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, but as @Gimby has explained, it's collaborative. This is all agreed upon and then the roll is made to see how it goes. If the...
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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.
This is correct. Basically: 1. Player says what their character does and what they are trying to achieve. 2. GM either says 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.
It's not an example of "narrativist games". It's an example of MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic. Apocalypse World is a "narrativist game" - as...
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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.
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...
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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...