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prabe reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Contextual. But, to be more specific than that, even though it requires me to speak in generalities that may not be perfectly ironclad... -
prabe reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The GM doesn't know, in advance, what actions the players will declare for their PCs. This is where the variable input comes from, as...
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prabe reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean, I don't really think it was designed with the idea of anything quite like PbtA-style Principles, but if I had to pick them...
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prabe reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Remember folks, silence is always an option.
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prabe reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It’s a cop out . It’s disclaiming decision making after play by blaming it on “the world” rather than disclaiming it during play by...
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prabe reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My limited experience (read: I've read Crime & Punishment) suggests that the act of murder is more enjoyable in the contemplation than...
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prabe reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't think anyone in this thread is confused about pretending, or about suspending disbelief. But as I posted, parents who fool...
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prabe reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, absolutely. My goal as a GM is to present a plausible world and scenarios that follow from what’s already happened in play and so...
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prabe reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There is no such claim. The claim is that a referee who seeks to fool themselves that the setting is real (so they end up in a...
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prabe reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Indian/Mexican is increasingly available in my corner of SoCal as well. It's one of those combos that seems really obvious in retrospect...
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prabe reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
There are really only two gotchas that I can think of, for authentic Mexican food: 1) Running into one of those people with the gene...
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prabe reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There are all sorts of things that fly in one game that would not fly in another. Creating a normative standard around what would fly in...
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prabe reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The first of those examples is @pemerton comparing BW to another game that they continually advocate for on these boards (TB2). The...
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prabe reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I have definitely learned when cooking for others that there are certain people who most definitely do not want and make comments about...
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prabe reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I hate to re-litigate the definition, but generally agency is meant to mean "ability to move towards a goal/specific result." This sort...