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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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Right. This point was made, way upthread, by @hawkeyefan and me (back then it was crumbling rocks, rather than sharp rocks). Yep, I... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Not really. That's not the point of the Jenga tower. The point of the Jenga tower is to ramp up the horror factor by ramping up the...
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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.
I hear you but please see my reply post #18477 to Max where I directly tie the consequence of the action to the poor die roll.
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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.
If you were more skilled, you would have picked that lock a lot sooner, before the cook made his way to the kitchen. If you were more...
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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.
HOLD THE HORSES! STOP THE TRAIN! For 1,000+ pages people had issues with the unfortunate luck of running into a cook when one failed...
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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.
Only if you treat the context of the game as an interchangeable slot to put the widget in. Not everyone is running campaigns with 20...
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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.
Sorry, but going to separate this one out. Where it's useful is in actually creating a taxonomy for discussing a game. If a DM says...
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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.
So, by this definition, simulation has nothing to do with the system. It's mostly due to the person running that system? Is that a...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, I don't really follow that. It reads to me as "this one's okay because it closely aligns to my thinking, this one is not because...
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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.
No, that's an acceptable opinion with which I happen to disagree. Just like mine is for you, I'd wager.
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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.
You absolutely do gain some information about how a result was achieved in a video game. You can see the path of the bullet as it hits...
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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.
Well, now there's improvement at least. We've gone from "D&D is a great simultationist game" to "it qualifies as a sim, but, just...
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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.
Seriously, man? How are the players "warping reality" any more than the GM is? Especially since I'm talking about game elements and...
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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.
That's kind of dodging the issue; if the players are adding things midplay its nonsensical to talk about them warping reality; they're...
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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
Haha.
Only if you don't care about the tone and flavour of your RPGing.