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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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@Campbell didn't say what you are attributing to him. Just because he pointed out that P=>Q, it doesn't follow that he said that... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But how are those details, of where the PC learned things, established. And how do you create the character's memories? Does the player...
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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 about being "nitpicky". @TheFirebird said that the issues I mentioned don't arise in their games. And I replied. Do you agree...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No, there’s plenty of legacy elements of D&D I like just fine. But there are parts of the game that have changed, and parts that have...
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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.
Why would it happen on success or failure? I talked about a "diegetic reason" - that is, a reason that comes from the shared fiction...
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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 don't know if your RPGing involves knowledge checks or not. If it does, then presumably one upshot of a successful knowledge check is...
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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 think you misread my post. Here it is again: I am talking about what I would or wouldn't do. Not what you are doing.
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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've got no issue with how you did this in your game. But you also post stuff like this: And you use this sort of thing to criticise...
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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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Sure. Who is disagreeing with that? I am saying that neither is more or less "quantum". They both involve authoring here and now... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I wasn't talking about restaurant or hotel or theatre reservations. I was talking about establishing fiction in a RPG. Forgetting to...
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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.
Yes. I also think that many of those RPGers have not really grappled with the tension that arises - which I noted in my post - because...
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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.
Why do we need to go through all of that rigmarole? We already have a roll. It already tells us something went wrong. And, again, it's...
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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.
The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, it is surprising. For the same reason that the GM needs to come up with stuff on the fly… because you can’t come up with...
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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.
I'm actually happy with players creating backstory and whatnot dynamically during play in order to relate to stuff that is happening...