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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with
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It's the method that makes all the difference. The power bosses other PCs around, plain and simple. Remove the term leader and remove... -
Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
So the option is to just waste someone else's turn and work against their choice of character class, or capitulate. And flavor does...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
Because your description in that post was itself a False Equivalence, because that's not how the term "Leader" was being used. You were...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+] with Like.
Have you read the 1e rules? Gygax contradicts himself all over the place. DMs should do X! And in another spot DMs should never do X...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].Not to that extreme, but that pretty much sums up my real-life personality as well. I've never liked anyone telling me what to do, even...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?.I liked this post but still have to ask: 10 wandering monster checks in 10 minutes? That's a damn busy dungeon! Busy, in fact, to the...
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Lanefan reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles? with Like.
In the dungeon my in-person group is currently in that’d be 10 wandering encounter checks. 🤷🏽♂️ And where my online game currently is...
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Lanefan reacted to David Howery's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
when I started back in 1980, the choices were 1E, Basic (of which there was only the Holmes set, which ran only to level 3), and OD&D...
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Lanefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm going to partially disagree. Terry Pratchett described humanity as Pan Narrans - the storytelling chimp and story is an inevitable...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].Same here, but while players are happy enough to track charges in wands they IME don't always think to do so with weapons etc., leading...
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Lanefan replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I think you're talking about different types of football here...
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Lanefan reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Because that is how it is called in practice. If you had a session (or even a part of a session)of D&D, where the rules were not...
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Lanefan reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
It seems to me that there may be a profitable distinction to be made between: 1. We are creating story with planned direction - 'OK in...
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Lanefan replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?."Long stretches" does not mean never, and as soon as rules do come into it then I think you've met the criteria for 'game' as defined.
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Not to my mind. The story is created in the telling/writing/filming/whatever process, because IMO stories need some degree of pointed...