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LLissilambe1 reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced with
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Ah, so that's why I always found Bob Ross so off-putting! -
LLissilambe1 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced with
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Some media is art; most is not. The fact that most people don't want to live with constant tension between their experience and... -
LLissilambe1 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced with Like.
If you think art has only one point, you have a limited view of art.
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LLissilambe1 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General New Feywild themed D&D Romantasy tie-in announced with Like.
That would seem relatively unlikely. Romantasy, like the romance genre it developed from, is built around prioritizing the repetition...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to James Jacobs's post in the thread Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
Can confirm. I had my first adventure published in Dungeon #12 when I was 16 (although I was 14 or 15 when my proposal was accepted and...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
Yeah, I think that's pretty normal. The cohort at WotC in 1999 for 3E was all that age (they're all 50 now!) So were a lot of the people...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
Why did Gary Gygax tell everyone he was an insufferable Jehovah's witness, sexist, racist and all around pig? Did that stop him from...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to Afroconan's post in the thread Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer with Like.
50 years ago you would be complaining about them hiring a bunch of she/hers. The same old sexism repackaged for the modern day.
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LGygax came from a military miniature / wargame perspective (so did I). There are a lot of assumptions about the knowledge of people...
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LIt can reasonably be argued that Gygax possessed neither.
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LLissilambe1 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I would argue that even when everybody is into the lore, it's better to sprinkle the lore in on a need-to-know basis, rather than...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to InVinoVeritas's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Then don't let it be! But be aware you'll need like-minded participants, or at least participants that are happy to tolerate it. In...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to InVinoVeritas's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
For lore to matter, it must affect players' decision making. Which means that the decisions made must be different from what they would...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I think that’s the heart of it right there. If I’ve written a whole page worth of lore for something, the actual bit worth communicating...
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LLissilambe1 reacted to Retros_x's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
In my experience, lore only matters for players, if it becomes relevant to their decision making during playing the game. Anything else...