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Pedantic replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.You have to assume the point of the mechanic is not to try and succeed at the challenge. The goal is to see what happens as a result of... -
Pedantic reacted to jian's post in the thread Codenames: That wizarding school edition firestorm and resolution with
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Yes, this. There are a lot of people out there (like me) who have burned JKR out of their lives and who get annoyed whenever they notice... -
Pedantic replied to the thread Codenames: That wizarding school edition firestorm and resolution.You've got it backwards. It's not that there's some central campaign following the licensing trail between industries, it's that a lot...
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Pedantic reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm still seeing more solutions upstream. Like, what you want is a guaranteed cinematic moment, and you're using a system that can...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Players are bad at math. Team monster will roll many, many more attacks than team hero and have many many more bodies to distribute...
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Pedantic replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Skill challenges are better understood as a shared fiction generation exercise that allows for player contributions to be digested...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I mostly see this particular fudging example as more evidence that critical hits are a bad general mechanic that is specifically...
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Pedantic reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
To be clear, I honour the roll. What is the point of being a gamist when you do not honour the game. The game + our homebrew rules have...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.."Meta" is a complicated prefix for RPGs. Because it's used in both the "meta game" sense you explained above, but also metatextual or...
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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.
That seems reasonable to me. From the point of view of "let's pretend, with rules" the second part cannot be engaged with in a gameful...
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Pedantic reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is a definition issue again. You see constraints on player choice as railroading - even if they are transparent, known and fully...
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Pedantic reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this example falls into the well known category that it is generally acceptable to use certain terms when using it in-group...
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Pedantic reacted to billd91's post in the thread Brennan Lee Mulligan to GM Critical Role Campaign 4 with Like.
He's good at keeping the flow going, in part, because that's part of the method he's been using for most of the shows he's in. Dimension...
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Pedantic reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Brennan Lee Mulligan to GM Critical Role Campaign 4 with Like.
Hoping this doesn't cut into his cobbler work too badly.
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I generally agree, though I would say that magic makes overwhelming the DC without taking 10 much more likely (though climb may be a bad...