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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
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He doesn't agree that they are disparaging terms - for instance,: the term “princess play” is not intended to be disparaging. I do not... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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He's written the essay to praise simulationist play. He is showing that it is worthwhile, and that it doesn't need to be described in... -
hawkeyefan reacted to grankless's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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lmao this thread has gotten completely unreadable when logged in now due to ignores (both toward me and by me). funny I'm astonished at... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
Yeah, what would Vincent Baker know about designing RPGs? Much earlier in this thread we worked out that he's just some internet rando.
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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.
If you mean that Tuovinen has a sense of superiority about simulationist play, I think that's a bit unfair.
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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 Love.
I play Torchbearer 2e. When PCs get injured, or sick, their performance of tasks is impeded. When they get exhausted, they are closer to...
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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 Haha.
I've noticed a distinct sense of superiority about "traditional GM" play, about "simulation", about a bunch of things in this thread...
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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.
I'm not sure that all do. For instance, some "cozy" RPGs seem to emphasise tea parties and the like. Some dungeon crawls, also, don't...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The comparison to how things work in the real world was made, and that's what I've been addressing when I've asked people to look at it...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, I said describing things that way outside the context of an RPG makes no sense. Please stop making these leaps about what you think...
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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 he's not! In the paragraph I quoted he (i) mentions Fate (a game which most naturally supports simulationist play) and (ii) expressly...
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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.
Or, if we want to, I dunno, be more gracious in our reading, it suggests that their experience without it has had many boring bits...
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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.
It means the characters fit the situations - they have a stake in them, care about how they turn out, have some internal conflicts...
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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.
It's competence in terms of situation - not compared to the rest of the world. What we want are characters who will be faced with...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay? Not sure what that has to do with what I said. This seems to imply that the world waits for the character to decide what to do...