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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm actually going to agree with you here re: @pemerton's examples. A shark bites a character's leg off. The audience see it. That's... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Oh, totally agree. AD&D falls down as a sim leaning system simply because the rules are too specific. I can use Thieves Skills to climb...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Actually, that one is diegetic. It exists for both the character and the audience. It is considered diegetic because it has real...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Please stop nit picking. It's incredibly frustrating. Note, the "climb halfway rules" (which I honestly had forgotten) aren't really...
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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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The character in the fiction did interpret the runes: they studied them, and worked out what they said. At the table it's true that the... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Nope. Because the die roll ONLY takes the character's skill into account. There are no DC's. You open that lock, climb that wall...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That's where you are 100% wrong. After all, we have no idea why that attack missed. The system provides zero information. Nor does...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..For that to be diegetic, the characters in the movie would have to react to the music stopping. We might not know why the music...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Moving back to this because this caught my eye. If you want a more sim leaning example of skills from D&D, you'd have to go back to 2e...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That's not what diegetic means. For something to be diegetic is has to exist for the audience AS WELL. Simply being observed within...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That is not what diegetic means. That is actually the opposite of what diegetic means. Again, I'm sorry, but, you are just wrong here...
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Hussar reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So after a few dozen pages of people talking about the primacy of the setting and the role of the GM as the near-sole contributor of the...
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Hussar 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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I don't know about that, though. In this thread I've learned that everything can be explained by pixies. All the way down, it's all... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Again, it's not that I've added anything because you don't need to. Something that exists both within and without the fictional world...
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Hussar replied to the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations.To be entirely fair though, prior to 3e, there just wasn't a whole lot of ways to focus on character generation. Look at those books...