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Ppemerton reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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It is the former, and yes, in the future I will try not to judge the play of others based on games with different assumptions, provided... -
Ppemerton reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you roll low, you fail to gain your objective/intent/etc. You lose. Your loss means something new needs to happen. To leave the...
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Ppemerton reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Someone saying the contrast you are drawing is the wrong one to draw is not the same as saying our games are the same. They are not...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How much Apocalypse World, or Dungeon World, or Burning Wheel have you played? You keep making these conjectures, but they don't fit at...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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My response is that you are drastically limiting the game to dealing only with things you, the GM, decide on. I don't think you all see... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Suppose that the player, as their character, knows that there is a sniper nearby. And they try to read a sitch to get a handle on the...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
There's NO established world at all. The apocalypse is not described nor constrained in any way. The premise is simply that civilization...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Love.
Again, nothing changed. Presumably in the fictional world we are to imagine the runes always represented a map. While I agree that 2...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Why not? Is this view based on a close reading of the MHRP rulebook? Thankfully, no such thing happens! The character's hopes don't...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
What is being said by Harper is that the MC decides things like what an NPC says, or how the psychic maelstrom manifests its influence...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
What 'actually is' here that's being changed???!!! There's no real runes, there's not even a fiction of what these pretend runes...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Why do you say this? Here's an example of a miss in Read a Sitch (pp 199-200): “So that’s weird,” Marie’s player says, at some point...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Except here you are still left standing in front of the locked door. When we say that the situation has changed, it's a material change...
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Ppemerton reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, I think that the sorts of goals and how they relate to the setting matters. BitD has a setting, but the entire focus is on the...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I agree that the setting isn't "owned" by any single participant. While the game starts as "no myth", part of the point of the first...
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