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Pedantic reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I feel like this touches a bit on what a game is, and what it should mean to be playing a game. I think it is normally counted essential... -
Pedantic replied to the thread What Media Format Is Your Preferred Campaign Style?.I think mine fall somewhere between James Bond films and heist stories. A big problem presented upfront to a recurring cast of...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm not sure how to read any of that as an argument in favor of a fail forward model. Either you're introducing yet more points of...
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Pedantic reacted to The-Magic-Sword's post in the thread You should read (or listen) to Dungeon Crawler Carl with Like.
Heh, gotta be honest, I really love LITRPG-- I didn't think I would and there's a lot of it that's decidedly amateurish (in the sense...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Hold up, you're conflating two different things here. Novel stuff, like encounters, creatures, situations, traps, all that, is not the...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It seems to me that there's at least 2 lines of argument against a fail forward model, which I'm categorizing as "the argument from...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..One dreads the conversation turning toward "immersion" or "realism" but I've argued before that forward facing causality of action...
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Pedantic reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If I read this correctly it relates to the debate on fail-forward where the "crappy design" is the simple fail mechanic not handling a...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. They're not seasoned. They're travelling a path with a map in a somewhat wild area. They're fine as long as they stay on the...
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Pedantic reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
At that point you're doing the binary-view thing I've complained about again, since now there's only sandboxes and story-centric games...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I suppose a mechanical consideration of this that does deserve more attention is that not having fail forward style contingent fiction...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I don't think this is quite right; the question at stake isn't the actual play or recitation of those situations in full. It's perfectly...
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Pedantic reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
These seem generally distinct in play. For instance, mechanics that establish that X is true of the game world. That establishing may...
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Pedantic reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Reflecting a bit more on the question of the existence of game world I'm going to draw a rough working distinction between it and shared...