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NNeonchameleon reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Obviously the rules of the game tell the GM to do do something and the GM chose something that was plausible for the fiction of the... -
NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I've only ever come across "goal and approach" as an idea for doing action resolution in 5e D&D. I don't know how it works. "Intent and...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not sure it's that strange. The posters who object to connecting the consequence to a player-side dice roll take it for granted that...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Just to step in, I'd add one in circumstances where it was appropriate to the game and style I was running the game in. To illustrate...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..As I said to you quite a few pages ago when you were talking about exactly this example you can be a deliberate jerk. You can also bring...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th with Like.
I've never really understood this mindset and that's as someone who's often described as a killer referee. The referee should never...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th.Indeed. There was a just over 40% death chance for each of them. And only about one in three both survived.
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Shanker's post in the thread Ivan Van Norman Leaves Darrington Press with Like.
Pre-orders on their website sold out, Amazon sold out of their pre-orders, and it was at one point ranking in the Top 100 books sold on...
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NNeonchameleon replied to the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th.It's also for two other reasons: Crit Role normally gets intense and dark but it takes a hundred sessions to build there; they have...
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NCorrect. The major hurdle for soloists is combat. If you have to roll initiative, both sides' attacks and damages, it can become...
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NPage 167. Whatever makes sense in the fiction, Adv/Disad are an easy answer. Do you have access to the rules? These are all answered...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You seem to be confused. "Intent and task" is Burning Wheel resolution. It can be applied in other games played with scene-framing and...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to BrokenTwin's post in the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th with
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Honestly, from listening to episodes 0-1, AoU feels more like Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles than it does Dark Souls. Which, I mean... -
NNeonchameleon replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Technically he's right. But to actually make it matter in play in 99% of circumstances would be an example of what I've seen described...
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NNeonchameleon reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th with Like.
I was worried too, but in the end the show iscright in their wheel house: levity punctuated by moments of genuine tension, emotion...