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..... Max, you're still doing it. You are still asserting that someone is saying "OH SO YOU WANT THINGS TO BE BORING???" when they...
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No, there’s plenty of legacy elements of D&D I like just fine. But there are parts of the game that have changed, and parts that have...
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Again, you are equating It is not the case that I have an agenda of making the characters' lives not boring with I have an agenda of...
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I don't think this is true. (1) That's not an account of expectations. It's an account of hopes. (2) The plans for increasing the...
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Uh, what? I'm no big fan of 5e but 'plays more like PbtA than trad D&D' tells me a) you aren't familiar with PbtA and b) your idea of...
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You are asserting that there is a town entails there is a farrier. But this is not true. Some towns, at some times, don't have farriers...
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@Campbell didn't say what you are attributing to him. Just because he pointed out that P=>Q, it doesn't follow that he said that...
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But how are those details, of where the PC learned things, established. And how do you create the character's memories? Does the player...
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It's not about being "nitpicky". @TheFirebird said that the issues I mentioned don't arise in their games. And I replied. Do you agree...
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I don't tell you how to go about RPGing. What makes you think you're entitled to tell me how to do it? Especially when it seems obvious...
Jul 4, 2025
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Just to add to what @EzekielRaiden already posted in response to this: which RPG are you talking about, when you refer to a "well...
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I've not said that they are the same in every respect. I have said that they are the same in some respects. One respect in which they...
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Why would it happen on success or failure? I talked about a "diegetic reason" - that is, a reason that comes from the shared fiction...
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I don't know if your RPGing involves knowledge checks or not. If it does, then presumably one upshot of a successful knowledge check is...
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I think you misread my post. Here it is again: I am talking about what I would or wouldn't do. Not what you are doing.
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