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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
That depends. Did you tell me that when you invited me or when I showed up at your game to play? If you told me "Remathilis, I am...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Clever bait and switch. So first off, if you invited me to play D&D 5e and then pulled out the Shadowdark book, I'd probably leave for...
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Mecheon reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Limiting the PC options to an extremely low amount of options without gauging the interests of playing is close to sneak writing on a...
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Mecheon reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
There is no universal "D&D social contract" that anyone is beholden to. A social contract is formed by the people at the table actually...
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Mecheon replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.There's a reason there's alternative ancestry options and classes already out there for Shadowdark. If it was 'ideal', people wouldn't...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
See post above. If your vision is too limited to allow 10 species and 12 classes (even if they aren't the exact ones in the PHB) then...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
And yet Gary is taken as The Word when it comes to how D&D should be played. The OSR started as "D&D as Gary intended". We had a whole...
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Mecheon reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Are you familiar with the section of the (IIRC) 1e DMG where it specifically instructs the GM to behave in a passive-aggressive manner...
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Mecheon reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
You said yourself, groups were siloed. That makes it pretty much impossible that there was any uniformity in play style. In effect there...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I want to believe you. I'm sure the silent majority of players are completely normal people having completely normal fun. But I'm of the...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think you are trying to redefine what is being discussed. Adversarial is not a play style. You are describing old school dungeon...
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Mecheon reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including...
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Mecheon reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
Dispute it all you want, but I know how commonly I saw it in the 70's, and the answer was "a lot". And one of the reasons it was so...
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Mecheon reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
It certainly was more wide spread than the community was willing to admit. And a phenomenon not limited to D&D. The worst GM I've ever...