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Pedantic reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with
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Fortunately, both online discourse and the industry as a whole have gotten a lot better about explicit design goals over the last decade... -
Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I've come around to making both critique and design in RPGs much more explicit about design goals. We waste a lot of time on "this was...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.I get it, I'm still baffled that you can publish an RPG without a skill system, and then people will think it has a skill system...
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Pedantic reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I think another issue with simulationists that have a low fantasy narrative tint to their thought is that, they have not ever figured...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.Well, that's kind of exactly it, isn't it? Fiction as a constrain on design, vs. a tool to explain the design. The problem with D&D's...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24.To be fair (and acknowledging we have to give a lot of grace if someone was basing a sim perspective on 5e to begin with), the complaint...
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Pedantic reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Unfortunately for that plan, I think a lot of players are attached to their one particular PC, not that they’re contributing a fraction...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes.I do wonder if there is a model of RPG play in there somewhere, where we remove direct player to PC control, in favor of a more...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes.I'm not describing "negotiation" in the game, I'm describing the core gameplay loop of negotiating with the GM; player proposes an...
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Pedantic reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
It won't because negotiation games are cheaper and easier to make. You don't have to design as many elements and can hide behind table...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes.I'd love to see RPGs in general and D&D in particular turn away from negotiation as the basic interaction mechanic, but we haven't had a...
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Pedantic reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Absolutely. Which is why whenever the argument occurs here on these boards about how high-level Fighter abilities should be fluffed...
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Pedantic reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
Yeah, but that's not the "Wizard fans" who are doing this... it's the two sides of Fighter fans arguing amongst themselves. "Wizard...
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Pedantic reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes with Like.
That doesn’t change the fact that casters have access to the ability to simply make things happen and martials don't. Again...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) A critical analysis of 2024's revised classes.To be fair, no one is really trying. I think it's still very possible to back engineer a set of design principles that make characters...