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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Every .5 e had its own griping and grousing, too. 4e fans don't all agree on if Essentials was a good idea or not. Lots of people think... -
I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D.If you sign up to play an adventure game, you expect to go on adventure. If you sign up to play a horror-themed D&D game, you expect...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..A D&D edition change is usually much more seismic than a "periodic rules update," or else we wouldn't have had the 3e/4e edition wars...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Fans are conservative by default. That true in about all fandoms because it’s in a definition of a fan to love how something is now... -
I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Which edition handled alignment best?.To drill down a bit: the big thing PS did was it made monsters into characters first. Those monsters included, for instance, fiends. Any...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Which edition handled alignment best?.System-wise, 5e did it best, understanding alignment as a rule for roleplaying. It's a little anemic, but that's nothing new. I was kind...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..People are doing that, though. The OSR is a wildly inventive space. Pathfinder's still chugging along last I heard. I bet if they OGL'd...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I would think the same philosophy @Reynard is advocating would apply to your preferences as well. Why not just play a game that doesn't...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..There's some ambivalence here for me. Adaptation, evolution, and growth are inevitable and generally positive things. On board in...
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I'm A Banana replied to the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D.The appeal for the players is that it might be fun to play some tragically flawed heroes who have some personality trait that will...
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Tragedy in my D&D career: * Deva paladin of love who was all Cha, no Wis, leading to a series if incompletely explored romantic...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Theory of Games's post in the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D with Like.
Yeah that isn't classic tragedy. What your presenting here is just "PCs made a bad decision". Again, classic tragedy is (normally) about...
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Keep in mind this would be for a game where the players agreed at session 0 that they wanted a tragic so claims of unfair/unfun just...
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I'm A Banana reacted to HappyHubris's post in the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D with Like.
I've run into some tragedy (and been a tragic character) at one of my tables. My character is a devout cleric to his god, but...
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I'm A Banana reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Doing Tragedy in D&D with Like.
This. a tragedy MUST be avoidable. And if it's avoidable, then we can assume that players will probably avoid it.