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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
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Simulation of what? Action movies? Myths and Legends? Fantasy Novels? The Real World? -
hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Because they want a good story not a contrived one. This is why we have principles like "begin, and end with the fiction" and "make 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.
This is basically one of the many ways the 5e designers indicate they don’t want the game to be based around resource husbandry, but...
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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.
I don't know. I think that's undervaluing the level of work that went into creating Runequest.
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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.
@AlViking Narrative focus would be better, addressing premise would be best (for Apocalypse World at least). Like there is more than...
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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.
As a sidenote, when GMs make decisions in games like Apocalypse World and Monsterhearts "the story" is not part of the agenda. Quite the...
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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.
In Dungeon World there is complete asymmetry. The rules (basic moves and the like) only apply to player characters and the rules that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In other words prefabricated parts. So no actual play experience. Just comparing the instruction manual for a set of power tools with...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Have you ever played DW or any other PbtA game? Or even read both DW and 5e? Because DW (for all I don't rate it as a good PbtA game) is...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It was actually a part of my thesis… we were simulating falling in RPGs!
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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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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Anyone living after being struck by a boulder hurled by a giant!
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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 Like.
Here’s a classic - a two-foot short sword injuring an 80-foot red dragon.
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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.
100%. I do run some games with a more sim agenda, and they have strict diegetic class identities. But even in those games, I have...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I can confirm this is accurate. My buddy and I both jumped from the roof of a 5 story building. I landed and shrugged, thanks to my...