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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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Fair enough. I disagree, but I see your point. I think focussing solely on bad DMs makes it too easy to conflate people who are... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure. I think we should all be able to understand which techniques work with which types of games (or player inclinations) after...
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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.
But in lots of games using fail-forward, generating consequences (problems) is the point of play.
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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.
People understand a lot of hyperbole. Doesn't make it a bit less ridiculous. Especially from someone who's complained about other...
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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.
Yes, I often play football without a referee and it goes perfectly well. They are called pickup games, and the experience more closely...
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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.
Ah, I didn't go back far enough! I did indeed find it strange that I would supposedly be the first to make that association.
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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.
Right. This point was made, way upthread, by @hawkeyefan and me (back then it was crumbling rocks, rather than sharp rocks). Yep, I...
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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.
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...