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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I will guarantee that that is not true. I know that for a fact. In any situation which calls for multiple skill checks in your games... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This is something I've REALLY struggled with both as a DM and trying to get players on board with this idea. The notion that because...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..True, I've never played in your game, but, by your admission, they are failing fairly often. The idea that there is only challenge in...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..One of the absolute best pieces of DMing advice I ever took from a module (and I have no idea what module this came from, it was too...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Except in your examples, you simply piled on yet more skill checks, the failure of which will result in total failure - the vase gets...
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Hussar 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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Though part of this is how severe "failure" is assumed to be in a lot of cases; if you can recover from individual failures, and the... -
Hussar reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
How do you know that the cook wasn't going to be there on a success? Did you peek at the adventure ahead of time?
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Hussar reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In actual play, do you really call for that many checks? I mean, I have a preference for task resolution over conflict resolution, but...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And thank you for so eloquently highlighting my point. Three separate checks to get through a kitchen, multiplied by each PC and any...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And that's fine as far as it goes. Except that in practice, "won't succeed 100%" actually means "won't succeed ever". Because the DM...
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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.
Yes, this is one reason for adopting closed-scene resolution. Or for adopting the AW approach where "nothing happens" is not an outcome...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Not saying that you don't already know this, but, for the audience, I would point out that 10 rolls at 2% is not equal to 20%. That is...
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Hussar reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm interested how you determine how many checks you need for this more granular style - we all know that the more checks are made, the...
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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'd add to this - if the probabilities are adjusted so that the overall outcome is not punishing, then each individual roll becomes...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Unfortunately, in practice, what this means is that the PC's will nearly always fail. Because the DM simply piles on check after check...