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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
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Tell that to the goose that I grabbed by the neck at 4 and dragged back to my family to show. Apparently it was a mean one Mr. Grinch... -
Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Further, since grandma also has 1 hit point, those 1 hit point ogres should be invalids. The whole minion thing is a narrative device...
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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.
I don't think it's a misreading of the rules, since I doubt he read the rules, but I could be wrong about that. Rather I think that...
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Lanefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Which is my point, it's a gamist perspective when other editions all took a more sim approach that I prefer. I understand the gamist...
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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.
Maybe. Home field advantage is a term for a reason. The PCs aren't going to know the ins and outs of the terrain like the monsters will.
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The ASI should be tied to - and forced to go on - the prime stat for the class. A Fighter should only be able to ASI Strength (or maybe...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
One could argue (I would) that the increased efficiency of Rico's squad was due to their own increased prowess, not a change in the...
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Lanefan reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Is this not the whole sim point? The mechanics are a concrete representation of something that can be understood, and there is no...
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Lanefan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sometimes there’s just not a particularly better alternative so you live with what you’ve got.
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..A creature's statblock can change over the long term as it ages and deteriorates, or learns and develops new skills, or whatever; but as...
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Lanefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
One if the reasons I didn't care for 4e in the long run (even though I played it) were there gamist issues like minions. At low levels...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sure. No problem with this. My problem is that even the spindliest Ogre is going to have considerably more than one hit point; meaning...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Disagree. Toughness and resilience are very real things, and hit points are their abstraction. A typical horse has more toughness and...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..As perceived, sure. But perception isn't what matters here. In reality that cat (let's assume the 3-year-old and the 15-year old are...
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Lanefan reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Players Decide when to Level Up with Like.
I think as non-XP methods of character advancement go, this seems like one of the better ones. I’m sure it could work with my usual play...