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Lanefan reacted to GreyLord's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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And then further pushed away when they decided Rogues had to suddenly be good at fighting and damage in 4e (strikers) and continued... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.In early days when the Thief wasn't very good at combat they didn't really tread on the Fighters' toes at all. Sure a Thief might get...
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Lanefan reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Why? Only he called himself that. Well, I guess Willow did too, but not because he actually was, but because Madmartigan was the one to...
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Lanefan reacted to Krachek's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think it is decided each time the most clever and charismatic player play something else than fighter. When the most skilled player at...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Aragorn - fighter with extras. Any swashbuckler - fighter with extras. Lancelot - pure fighter. You've got lost in the weeds, I think...
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Lanefan reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
You are asking about the early game and what went wrong. Adding skills was exactly that. That is a different argument than "skills are a...
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Lanefan reacted to billd91's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
It may be one of those player kneejerk reactions that are kind of inexplicable. You can beat their PCs up, even kill them, and some...
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Lanefan reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
A bottle episode adventure is a railroad now? Wild. Nah, unless you took them from what they were trying to do and made them go to the...
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Just something I saw over at DeviantArt - not my work
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I have used coffee stains
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Not @Crimson Longinus but I'll take a guess: the question is whether - in the clocks example - you're looking at the state of the...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Unfortunately, without knowing anything more about Joe's established character history and personality this can't really be answered...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".OK, fair enough. Makes sense except for one thing: for me, the two bolded bits are in direct conflict. Organically playing the...
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Lanefan reacted to Kannik's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Mostly from that being of a full character (in the literary sense) and looking at ourselves. We goof up all the time. Sometimes due...
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Lanefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".There has to be more to it than that, I'd think, else this is just a rewording of the basic granular play loop common to all RPGs...