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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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I'd suggest that's because very few of those people particularly care or cared about simulation except in the broadest sense. -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I didn't even think that was an argument. I'm reasonably sure that was the point. @Hussar may have a different take than me, which is...
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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 don't think it's anywhere near that ambitious. Remember that the skill challenge and the combat have completely different goals. The...
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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.
I mean, you can certainly assign some kind of diegetic linkage to "minion", "elite", etc. But that definitely wasn't the point. 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.
For some maybe and can also empathise but only to a degree, because if I were sim-orientated, and I used to be more so, there would be...
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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
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Certainly not, since the claim isn't true. It's often repeated though. Keep in mind, Lanefan is of the opinion that a creature cannot... -
hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I agree that there’s a fairly large contingent of D&D fans (conservative ones?) who will not accept a taxonomy that doesn’t give a...
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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
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lol at the idea of making progression in these arguments. As if people here have any intention of desiring progress or understanding... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Simple. The system does not, in any way, produce a single NPC that you would fight at 1st level and then again at 15th level. Bob the...
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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.
I think this would be fine, if the proponents of the playstyle didn’t denigrate anything they perceived as outside the playstyle...
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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.
And yet, you have zero problem with a method that just says "=100, make up any math you want to so long as it equals 100". And then...
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I don't understand these situations you envisage. First it's a complex multi-part conflict such that we want to break out the skill...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.One is visible to the players, the other is not. One is set, the other is not. This sounds more like a quality of yours rather than...
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By deciding how many, and what kind of, and the difficulty of, obstacles exist between the PCs and their goal, you become a participant...
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The question is demonstrably absurd. If there were real causality the GM would be unable to break it - because the outcome would be down...