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Micah Sweet reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers) with
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C’mon, it wasn’t that, it was the extras budget. It’s been a problem this whole season. -
Micah Sweet reacted to BrokenTwin's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I never got a chance to run it, but I did develop a setting once where the ancestries were based on sexual dimorphism in animals. The...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Corinnguard's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
It's easier to be subjective than objective about something. Being objective means you have to put aside any biases you might have and...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.Good thing both sides can present only subjective personal opinions then.
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I played 4e for years. I ran LFR games, ran a home campaign. I DMed and played games up into epic tier. I am telling you what I, and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't think the rules break in 5e as badly as they did in 3e. The rules in 4e worked just fine if you liked the rules, the issue...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not sure there is a great approach. Personally I use mobs, but it's mobs of zombies not ogres. I just don't care for the minion...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Make sense. But you are not as opposed to the minion approach if it doesn't mean the stats of the monster change depending on who is... -
Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don't know why 4e fans keep injecting later interpretations and personal opinions about the SC rules into a discussion specifically...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I just reread the section and quoted the text of the rules. They're quite clear. There have to be X successes before Y failures and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If by "interpretation" you mean, doing what the text of the rules said to do, I agree. The other argument I see is that you don't use...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This last statement is pretty judgy. "Some people accept that I'm right about this, but some are still wrong". Not a very accepting and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It happened in the 1e MM with liches being magic users or clerics. Couatls are magic users, clerics or both. Vampires in the 1e MM...
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Micah Sweet reacted to cranberry's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To answer the OP. People have certain preferences, and like to stick with them. Maybe they aren't necessarily resistant to change, but...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The problem, as you say, is that virtually no game actually talks seriously about what high-level play is actually like at the table.