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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How can something exist for the audience without the audience being able to see any information about how a result occurred? Again... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In what way is "a simulationist system must provide any information about how the result was achieved" incoherent? In what way have I...
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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
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As I posted, in Classic Traveller it's identified as a procedure for GM-less play. (Traveller calls that playing without a referee.) -
Hussar reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Some people, when they play RPGs, prefer that all the setting backstory and the like is established prior to play. And some RPGs -...
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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.
More power to you if you can pull it off. For my life experiences, I usually start with the group, and then we pick games that fit 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.
Is this based on your experiences of play? Or is it conjecture? What are your thoughts on the role of prep in (say) Dogs in 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.
Do you have anything to say about these things? I mean, it seems fairly obvious - doesn't it? - that simulationist experiences of...
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Hussar reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Perhaps the same reason that people who insist on calling anything that isn't done according to their exact preferences "reality-warping...
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Hussar reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This may be your point but it wasn't mine. But, I will say this. The GNS model is an attempt to extract playstyles from what exists...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This is so frustrating in this thread. I say this three times and I'm told I'm 100% wrong every time. You say it once and everyone...
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Hussar reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think causality is often messed up if we are thinking just about what we do at the table. Resolving hit locations in RQ being a clear...
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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 Like.
Yeah, this is my biggest objection to the "toss everything left into sim" element of GNS; it lumps together two things that I don't...
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Hussar reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, with respect, simulation in general does not require that association. That association is specific to what is usually called...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Except that we have accepted that simulation does not require ANY causality between the mechanics and the result. The mechanics are...
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Hussar reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's right. I was agreeing that you raise some pertinent questions, and proposing that a step in answering them will be to identify...