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hawkeyefan reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Levelling, and specifically how high level characters can take on multiple low level characters at no risk. Levelling, and... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If it's an abstraction, it's not a simulation. And hey, I never said I didn't like it, so you can turn that particular faucet right...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Don Durito's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
All I can think about this is, in a game in which a risk of death is a real and possible outcome, shouldn't this be such a situation in...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Don Durito's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well I was playing around with 3.5 the other day and I realised that if I gave a Mature Dragon one level of Abjurant Champion they would...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Don Durito's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The difference is important. Hit points are just abstraction. Falling a 100ft and being able to stand up and dance a jig is 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 think we may differ here because I think "exercising creativity" and "having a creative agenda" are two different things. Simply...
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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 class system.
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hawkeyefan reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Wearing heavy armor makes you dodge better?
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hawkeyefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well first of all I play Level Up, which has more sim-focused rules added to play, like the journey system. I add stuff from other games...
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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.
Yea, I think there are definitely more categories than that. But it's also why I'm not a fan of using the GNS model as a strict...
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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.
Which is why I find the "I'm a sim fan so I don't like it" argument, coming from people who mostly play D&D or D&D variants, pretty...
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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 just don't see any reason why being flexible shouldn't be the norm. You don't see a ton of people who play exactly one type of...
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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.
But it doesn't simulate the process of falling. It only tells you the result that you fell down. That's it. It could be gravity or it...
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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 prepared to accept that, in most D&D play, there are broad genre conventions and table understandings that rule out the "pixies...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Okay, cool. It sounds like you’re making a distinction between standard 5e as written and what you play. What do you do to make it...