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Yeah the one thing I will never, ever budge an inch on is the stance that if you play a dumb character you can't fully participate in...
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Combining all the different, unrelated things listed under "Intelligence" doesn't convey a "strong sense of convenience"?
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"Attributes don't matter until you have to make a roll that uses them." Why are attributes and HP different?
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I mean, any game that has stats pretty similar to D&D's I'm probably going to fold under the umbrella of D&Dishness for discussion...
Feb 19, 2026
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Honest question, you mentioned that they're there to model some aspect of the character, how do the other things that form the model of...
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You’re posting like « people should play their attributes » is what other posters are taking issue with. It really isn’t. They take...
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An 8 Int is slightly below average. I played an 8 Int rogue in 4e. He was uneducated and intellectually incurious, and I told the DM...
Feb 19, 2026
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As a passive observer, I can definitely say that some of your posts read as strongly dismissive of other people's opinions that you...
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This is focussing on the wrong part of the issue. « People should play their stats » is uncontroversial. There may be some argument...
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Because there are always a variety pf people responding to you in more or less the same way I do about the same set of issues. It's not...
Feb 19, 2026
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Yup, you have a very different picture of what your posts look like than a lot of people who read them. That's both interesting and...
Feb 19, 2026
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Maybe you should stop telling people they are doing things wrong then, which you do with clockwork regularity when they do it...
Feb 19, 2026
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Your interpretation of the connection between stats and roleplaying. There isn't 'right way' to do that, but that doesn't stop you from...
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See, this is exactly what I mean. You have a very specific idea of what stats mean, and now that it's your opinion and not someone...
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