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Ppemerton reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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The DMG instructs that "During each stage of the characters’ journey, you can determine what the weather is like by rolling on the... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Huh? How do the PCs perform actions without the "outside" influence of the players declaring them? How do the PCs form beliefs about...
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Ppemerton reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Heh. Perusing Knave 2e and reading through it. Very cool. This one line just totally stuck out with me considering this thread: I...
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Ppemerton reacted to grankless's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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maybe yall should stop rageposting about the scary and nasty Other Ideas that have polluted your Pure Gygaxian Industry. this thread is... -
Ppemerton reacted to grankless's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Have you considered collaborating with the player who wants to try playing a tiefling to make the mechanical and fictional core? They're... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..As I posted upthread, In addition, here are some of the relevant relations: *The GM has announced a "strange runes" scene distinction...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..How is reading runes unrelated to the presence of strange runes on a wall? How is runes revealing a way out of a dungeon unrelated to...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But... you're in charge of the surface folks' reactions. I don't quite understand. They don't HAVE TO react that way if you don't want...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, gospel is hyperbole. I’m just saying that, until told otherwise, when someone talks about D&D, I’m gonna assume the races and...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
But that could all be changed very simply if you wanted. You could just say “on this world, Drow are not all evil… they are like any...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm following the general direction of the thread in its account of "simulationism". As I think you're alluding to, there's a fairly...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I posted it upthread. (And have posted it many times on these boards over the years.) It's not mysterious: If D&D gets classified as...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, I know. The structure of your play includes the GM using secret information to establish secret fictional positioning which is then...
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Ppemerton reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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It’s definitely the “why are you spending all this time on something virtually no one cares about” aspect I’m arguing. If making tons... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In the same way that the classification of animals requires attending to more than one or two species, so it seems to me that the...