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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
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If it’s something that the PC would “never do”, then obviously it can’t be the result of a successful resolution roll in the game. If... -
hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
A PC was negotiating with NPCs in Sigil. One of the NPCs used Detect Thoughts which allows one to pick up surface thoughts for free...
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hawkeyefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Would this change for you were the consequence or knowledge concerning it diegetic... something the characters can know? "Sure, you're...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
From my personal point of view, the reason for this is pacing. I want my games to have a MUCH higher pace than you do. We've had...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In the game in question, there wasn’t really any option to negotiate their action declarations. The issue was a cliff that they needed...
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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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But . . . but . . . my results table goes to 11! -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Why can't the GM say: "If you fail, then <whatever> will happen"? @hawkeyefan gave an example upthread, along the lines of "Sure, you're...
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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.
But that’s just terminology. It doesn’t matter. 10 is the “success with complications” target, 15 is the “success free and clear”...
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hawkeyefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Game trains you so badly that interesting things happen when you're bored. As opposed to Level Drain, Sex Change and Alignment Change...
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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.
How is it not playing the game right? All prep is being honoured. All mechanical interactions are being resolved in accordance with 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.
I don't know what you intend by "fail forward at a mechanical level". The mechanical level is rolling some dice and identifying a...
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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.
I've certainly used it in 3.5, PF, 4e, and 5e. It's fairly trivial to use. "Oh, you failed your arcana check to identify the runes...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That was not the situation, though. It wasn't that there were no consequences and the character could try again and again. What I did...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Like I said, Max... time to shrug and move on. Very little of what you said above makes sense to me. All I can do is recommend that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok, let's back up a second shall we? We're all DM's. All of us here are running games. So, that means that every single poster here...