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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
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I didn't care for minions, even if I did understand what they were going for. But it just made no sense in the fiction. Take Grr, the... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Players Decide when to Level Up.Things like that happen at about the same odds and frequency as if the player was there. If my character had been played in a manner...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Any movement/update on Creative Commons SRD for previous editions?.That, and the ability to use TSR-like formatting, stat blocks, etc. without worrying about what lines are being crossed. It always...
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Lanefan reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General Any movement/update on Creative Commons SRD for previous editions? with Like.
In a word: standardization. It's nice to imagine a world where material actually says "1e AD&D compatible" instead of the alphabet soup...
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Lanefan reacted to Vicar In A Tutu's post in the thread US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price with
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Online gaming / VTTs was already resurgent after Covid, and this might give it even more wind in its sails ... -
Lanefan replied to the thread Common Pitfalls in Game Design.The problem there is that the more you fine-tune the playstyle, processes, and purpose(s) you're aiming for, the smaller your potential...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Removing that iterative probability issue entirely would make combats very dull and boring: they'd all have to be cakewalks for the PCs...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Let's say I meet Bob the Ogre when I'm a 1st level Fighter. I'm a pushover for him, so Bob's probably statted as an Elite. Let's also...
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Lanefan reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
As you say, the statblock is a snapshot. But the effect of applying "roles" in 4e means that the snapshot changes based on who's...
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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.
Or we get as close as we practically can to diegesis, and abstract what we have to for play. I do that, and somehow still manage to run...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Why is 4e "trying to tell" any stories? Or any edition, for all that? Isn't the story something that each table of people comes up...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And this always bugged me, until not so long ago when I came up with a system* for decaying class abilities after an adventurer retires...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I find magic fairly easy to sim, now that I've come up with a basic underlying physics model that integrates magic with what we already...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sounds good to me. And sure, there'll be things some monsters can do that PCs (almost always) cannot, because the range of playable PC...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..One thing that doesn't change your statblock, however, is the foe you're currently facing. Sure, various foes might impose temporary...