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Lanefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Obliquely, I think the three or so types of fact play a part in justifying the "expert-GM" of FKR. We have Type-I facts - things true... -
Lanefan reacted to robertsconley's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Appreciate the compliment. It expands on my Blackmarsh setting and puts a spotlight on traditional adventure sites—while also using...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's only inconsistent if it's not a fantasy world that we are imagining. If we are imagining a fantasy world, then in addition to the...
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Lanefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
One notion I came up with after writing, is what I'm thinking of as doppelganger-like effects. That it should be less tolerable to see a...
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Lanefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To me this runs into at least two challenges (that I've already outlined). Foremost, how much is enough? TTRPG isn't played to the...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And yet without those prereq's the subsequent applications can't exist. Well, no, I don't in fact have to defend anything. The one...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..By the laws of aerodynamics neither bumblebees nor jumbo jets should be able to get off the ground and yet there they are, flying around...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Where are you getting the bolded from? Neither of my options even hint at that. Your "third path" is my second path, whether done...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That would come under "trash the rule". To me it's one and the same, as rulings set binding precedents for the rest of that campaign.
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..So if, on reading or applying an existing rule, you're faced with a hard choice between the following: --- follow the rule even though...
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Lanefan reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Company called Living Imagination. It's still available in print and pdf. FANTASTIC books if you love age of sail. But seriously...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Few rules means that the rules in place need to be broader. The broader the rule, the more likely you are to encounter a corner case...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah. It seems pretty clear they just removed a math step when they made the armor table with the base ACs for armor. It was still base...
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Lanefan reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Just to chime in here on this entirely new topic... The idea of suspension of disbelief is that some baseline exists. It doesn't mean...
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Lanefan reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Agreed that "the proper ways" for this stuff are often not articulated. I'm don't understand the "enforced upon everyone else" part...