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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Almost certainly. I have to question how many of the participants in this thread are interested in taking them, though.
Jul 31, 2025
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I thought I’d jump off here. Perhaps the elements I most consider ‘good sim’ or essential for sim from an rpg perspective aren’t...
Jul 31, 2025
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Where other men think about Rome every day, I think about Discworld, which I suspect is healthier all around. Anyway, while I was...
Jul 31, 2025
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Then we're missing steps. Perhaps whatever the "simulation" (probably the wrong term, but we're stuck here) thing is we're taking about...
Jul 31, 2025
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Are we going to make any real attempt to get at why some mechanics cause a backlash and others don't? It looked like for a moment we...
Jul 31, 2025
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I don't understand this angle. All that matters is the subjective experience of the players here, not the immaterial nature of the...
Jul 30, 2025
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I don't really care? I'm more interested in exploring the what's and how's of what turns people off and working backwards to a design...
Jul 30, 2025
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While its a bridge too far for me, you won't hear me say its not a consistent position. Though I'm not sure I think the proper term is...
Jul 30, 2025
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That would be a fertile area of investigation; we could do more of that, and less of trying to find the angle that allows us to declare...
Jul 30, 2025
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We might break this down in a more clear way. For the orc in a fight - all the abstracted events (dodging, footwork, and so on) that...
Jul 30, 2025
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3rd Edition Revisited - Better play with the power of hindsight?
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Ironically, I thought PrCs were one of the best ideas in 3e; it was just the execution was often, shall we say, lacking.
Jul 30, 2025
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Right, I'm probably in the only deconstructions superhero bucket. You can find me 10 years ago claiming that superhero stories aren't...
Jul 30, 2025
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I wanted to jump back to this point, because I think it's where a significant element was moved outside the thing under question. The...
Jul 30, 2025
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Interested, but the unofficial English translation is already very, very, good. The fans set the bar pretty high.
Jul 30, 2025
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I see you've somehow acquired it my yet-to-be-published game, Skin Suit, the RPG. You'll be hearing from my lawyers, sir.
Jul 29, 2025
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