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prabe 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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Nobody is trying to be insulting or obtuse or anything else. I'm an engineer and a scientist, I get to the ground truth of things, what... -
prabe replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Both these things can be--and are--true.
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prabe reacted to payn's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
France is awesome, this is a no brainer.
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prabe reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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So I can either finally buy put a down payment on a house (who am I kidding, I life live in SF) or I get an EU passport? Win-win... -
prabe reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Different Games for the Referee and Players with Like.
Don't these different systems need to have the same basic game-play structure and procedure? Like, the same expectations around what an...
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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.
Why can’t you just say “In a living world sandbox, the setting is the priority, and that’s a good thing”?
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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 Haha.
Dude. Did you seriously turn to "hit points" for an example of a simulationist model? Hit points? Solid joke. 9/10. You almost...
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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.
At the table the kayfabe where we do not acknowledge the real world causes of why our characters are acting the way they are or why the...
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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 Haha.
Sometimes people will be too scared to kill someone, sometimes they won't be. Hmm. If only there was some way to resolve such...
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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 could be wrong, but I took @TwoSix to be reiterating the fact that the fiction is authored in virtue of GM decision-making. Because...
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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.
This claim is I think actually is controversial in the philosophy of fiction, because some philosophers think that fictions can be...
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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 Haha.
I think this correction is suggesting a more derogatory use of murderhobo than I intend. As I understand it (thanks, Wikipedia!)...
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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.
There’s never one true way. But it’s there’s no sense of boundary as to what a “sandbox” is, then it’s a fairly useless term.
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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.
You made the decision to not have orcs in your fantasy setting. That’s not a judgment. It’s not a normative statement. It’s just a...
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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.
If some sandboxes have DMs who shape aspects of the setting around player decisions, and other sandboxes have DMs who don’t do that...