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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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Here's another well-known game procedure: the Gm asks the player something about the world, and the player answers. I expect that... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...
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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.
I meant a one-way relationship. There are obviously different methods to making the characters' lives not boring. One way just to have...
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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.
Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making 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
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Here is my perspective on this: I have done a lot of pretty hardcore simulationist RPGing. Mostly using RoleMaster, but also using... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Again, you are equating It is not the case that I have an agenda of making the characters' lives not boring with I have an agenda of...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The reason why the lock pick attempt might be louder on a failed roll is very simple; it’s because one way to fail at lockpicking would...
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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.
Pemerton already called this out, but you're committing a formal fallacy here, called "denying the antecedent." "P→Q" does not mean...
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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.
You are asserting that there is a town entails there is a farrier. But this is not true. Some towns, at some times, don't have farriers...
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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.
@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...
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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 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...