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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
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Wow. Really? I LOVE it when the players do that. Heck, my players do it all the time. It's fantastic. It means they do all the work... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I'd much rather, in a simulationist leaning game, that the DM's narration was actually connected to the fiction of the game than... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't think curation of options is particularly related to broader playstyle questions. I personally tend to favor curating the list...
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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.
Sure. They're welcome to find their bliss elsewhere. Given my personal disinterest in world building for its own sake (though I...
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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.
My personal concern in these sorts of situations would be are players acting on their character's curiosity or their own? Do their...
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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.
As best I can tell, @Hussar is relying on widespread consensus that RuneQuest, Rolemaster, Chivalry & Sorcery, HERO, GURPS and the like...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, D&D 2024 tells the DM that they should ensure changes are fun for the table and discussed with the players. So you know, that’s a...
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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 seems to me that there are (at least) 3 ways of thinking about an episode of RPGing, or an approach to RPGing, as simulationist: (1)...
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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 Haha.
Do you take a similar approach to your GMing...?
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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.
I most certainly have, though I appreciate your olive branch, it would be nice to have that come up, say, when we have things like a...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don’t think it’s out of the ballpark to interpret the below and the tangent it brought about exactly as @pemerton did. I’d say his...
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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.
As far as I can tell, what's at stake is telling people who don't enjoy GM-driven RPGing (whether as players or GMs) that they 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.
I also don't see how "D&D General" = trad gamers/trad gaming. I have played D&D quite a bit, and am likely to play it again before I...
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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.
Given that systems of law in which precedent is authoritative have devices for departing from, and/or overturning, precedents that are...
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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 Like.
I'd probably call a number of those overly casual unless the GM was signaling pretty strongly too.