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MrBeens304 reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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[Random Person's] views are clearly garbage. Now, just to be clear, I don't mean that disparagingly, because one person's trash is... -
MrBeens304 reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok, I think I start seeing a pattern here now. I really think it might be something essential to unpack in the word "traditional". In...
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MrBeens304 reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It doesn't even need to be a sustained period - given how short 5e levels 1 and 2 can be in terms of encounters it's very...
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MrBeens304 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This never occurs in Dungeon World--and, IMO, it should be extremely rare anywhere else. And now you're doing what all sorts of OSR...
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MrBeens304 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Given that's how you add in contextualisation for a player learning fireball, do you do that for every new spell the player learns? What...
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MrBeens304 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I thought I was pretty clear. If you can't get players to agree to the rules and tone of the game, to the point that you can't play the...
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MrBeens304 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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MrBeens304 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This entire thread is going round and round in circles faster than a windmill in a hurricane, and it’s all down to people’s imagining...
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MrBeens304 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Because that's the BASIC DEFINITION of simulation. If the game rules do not tell you why something happens, then they are not...
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MrBeens304 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's simply false to say that the runes are simultaneously good and bad. They may be good. They may be bad. They may be neither -...
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MrBeens304 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. My issue is that (i) it's utterly routine for the GM to make a decision to narrate/introduce some bit of fiction prompted by some...
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MrBeens304 reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Didn't we get an example of this in one of the 5e launch streams? Something like Acquisitions Incorporated?
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MrBeens304 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It is however very easy to interpret things as "attacks" on things when many people in this thread use absolute statements like "That...
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MrBeens304 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
How do you know that? First… you’re making the same mistake as @AlViking above. You’re assuming you know what would have happened on a...
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MrBeens304 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..So all of this ridiculous back and forth over "consequences" of lock opening is just down to how granular you consider actions need to...