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hawkeyefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Give me a break. Its the fact I'm trad leaning myself pretty heavily why I have an issue with it. I don't consider the fact that... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You know… I got moderated for making assumptions about other people’s motives. No one has ragged on you. You aren’t trad gaming.
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Maybe. It depends on so many factors that we could each just come up with scenarios to serve as examples. But ultimately, it’s something...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. It’s a mistake, they happen. Just adjust going forward. Following a mistake...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..While I agree with you that a discussion during the game is generally fine, I don’t think that in a case where it may make sense to make...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This seems to assume no responsibility on the players’ part. If PCs encounter and are killed by a red dragon at level 1, it’s certainly...
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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.
People are free to organize their play however they want. But assuming the whole hobby either is or should be organized on a take it or...
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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 wasn't trying to say anything about D&D. I meant the previous as an addendum to the one before. Basically, to clarify that when people...
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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.
Isn’t this just 1 thing? Isn’t a GM abusing the power and authority granted to him by the players ipso facto violating the social contract?
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Which version of D&D are you talking about? There are several where running into a red dragon at 1st level is perfectly acceptable under...
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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.
On a practical level when it comes to superseding rules and making rulings the vast majority of the time when it's done in the trad...
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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.
The stuff that binds the GM in Apocalypse World and similar games are big picture flow of the game type stuff. It's similar to 5e's...
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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 think you are overly focusing on the example I gave here. My point is that you don't need to give the GM power to overrule the rules...
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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.
I felt games texts like AW have been influential in encouraging designers to spell out their intended GMing practices. On top of...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I’m not sure how rare bad GMs are. I’m far more concerned about bad GMing, as in instances of it, which I think are incredibly common. I...