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hawkeyefan reacted to Maggan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Yeah, I'm on that train as well, and in my group we railroad at times, just to keep things moving along. And sometimes play is... -
hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..What courtesy? That you can want D&D to be more to your liking? Go ahead! How can I not afford you that courtesy? That's why I've made...
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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.
I am going to disagree with you here. Linear =/= Railroad. Like, at all. Railroad specifically talks about a degenerate form of play...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I am going to disagree with you here as well, but I don't really desire to get pulled into the weeds discussing semantics. I like...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You’ve missed my point. You’re asserting that railroading is bad. Always and objectively bad. Yet there are people who play that way...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, absolutely. People are saying that railroading is solely the GM's fault... I think that's a really simple way of looking at it. As...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But you don't care that there are people who happily play and run railroad type games and you're classifying their fun as offensive...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Well, I'm kind of looking at what the word alter means. As I explained, and which you seem to agree with per the below, it means...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, absolutely. They are interchangeable to me. I am not describing anyone's games other than ones I've been in. If I'm playing an...
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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.
I get that. I have players like this as well. I actually put it to the players fairly recently, asking how much freedom they wanted...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Not even remotely the same! The DM here is merely describing that the door is locked and if the character wishes to open it, there are...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I suppose that’s what makes it linear? But again, a linear game that a player cooperates with and plays along will essentially have the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I remember playing as a teen and telling the DM my dwarf undid enough gear to urinate on the dais of the big bad. I have just never...
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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.
The point, that seems to be continually ignored, is that the player is repeatedly presented as having this enormous degree of freedom...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..While I don't think it's rare... I mean, Paizo has built their entire business around it... there are plenty of times where it may make...