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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..See my above response, but, just to point out - what logic? Where does this logic come from? Oh, right, it's his chain of logic. Whic... -
Hussar reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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What’s really odd about is that it’s gone from “I don’t like the ways these rules work” to “I don’t think you GMed this right, because... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But, I guarantee that if you had two plausible outcomes, one of which you think the players will enjoy playing out and one that they...
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Hussar reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No one is missing this. What they are saying is that (i) it's often very far from clear how a person is "supposed" to act; and (ii) if...
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Hussar reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean Dolmenwood is a pretty darn incoherent/implausible setting but an amazing sandbox! It’s full of magical mushroom faeries, doors...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..But that's the point that you keep trying to ignore. It is YOU who are choosing between the plausible outcomes. It is YOU who defines...
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Hussar reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Let me put it this way: Suppose I'm trying to teach someone how to run a living world sandbox. Which way of describing it seems more...
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Hussar reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This to me is where the real differences lay. Not in how plausible things are, but in the objective of play. That sandboxes present...
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Hussar reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You do realize, in absolutely standard English, something being the priority doesn’t mean that it’s the only thing that matters?
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Hussar reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Nobody is trying to be insulting or obtuse or anything else. I'm an engineer and a scientist, I get to the ground truth of things, what...
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Hussar reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I’ve even seen some PBTAs bringing downtime actions in to build an episodic structure and create that sort of focused downtempo scenes.
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Hussar reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
We use a lot of Blades tech in my homegroup's other games. Our Vampire hack, our Cyberpunk Cortex hack and our Final Fantasy 8 Cypher...
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Hussar reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I've never heard of a GM running a model. And on its own, imagining isn't modelling. I mean, the Knights of the Iron Tower - the order...
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Hussar reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There’s never one true way. But it’s there’s no sense of boundary as to what a “sandbox” is, then it’s a fairly useless term.
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Hussar reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If some sandboxes have DMs who shape aspects of the setting around player decisions, and other sandboxes have DMs who don’t do that...