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I finished Tiptree & McIntyre's The Girl Who Was Plugged In / Screwtop. The Girl Who Was Plugged in is so ahead of its time - if PKD is... -
prabe reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Don't you mean "Um, actually..."? If we're gonna be pedantic, let's be meta-pedantic, too. -
prabe reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Haha.
Well, AKSHUALLY…
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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
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My goal is not to bash on anything. It's to look at what D&D does, and what it has done traditionally, and to see where/how it may... -
I periodically do a rant about how arranging stories in order of internal chronology leads to greatly distorting impressions, and it’s...
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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 was thinking of Chekhov's gun before I read your post. The difference, I would say, is that in the sort of play Harper is describing...
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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.
So, the way I tend to view the listed GM Moves in any given game is that these are the things that you explicitly have the authority to...
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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.
Absolutely! I played in a 2d20 game of Star Trek Adventures for a bit. I'm not a big Trek fan, so I wasn't crazy about the game... but...
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prabe reacted to Scribe's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
As this is still an RPG forum, I dont know who needs to hear this. We are what we do. Time keeps going, you dont have to like it, but...
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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.
I wanted to take a moment to show why it's important to look things through the prism of a game's intended GM and player roles when...
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prabe reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Haha.
dear lord, i missed one day of visiting this thread and i ended up catching up on it for days.
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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 Like.
I think the issue here is the difference between simple task adjudication and Narrativist 'fiction resolution'. Even in AW I'd like to...
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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.
So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...
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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 Like.
I can't speak for others, but what I want is clear stakes. I want to know what I'm risking, what the potential rewards are, and how the...
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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 Like.
It's not, and it illustrates a much more common pattern in Narrativist play. Hino sees a bunch of peasants being driven into an assault...