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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
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The point of "make it some other complication" isn't trying to sell you on it. It's to address the faulty way the technique is being... -
prabe reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Then....don't? Personal dislike of a technique is completely orthogonal to the technique's validity.
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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
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The "failure" is the metagame result of not meeting the target number, not so much the narrative result. I just thought of another fun... -
prabe reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean, I think trying to GM scenes such that "everything makes sense" is kind of the point! Much like rolling an encounter on a table...
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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.
If your issue is that fail forward means we're no longer in task resolution / sim mode, cool. You do you. An example of what fail...
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prabe reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Haha.
The Dunning-Kruger Uncertainty Principle.
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prabe reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
The inverse relationship between certainty and accuracy never fails to impress.
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prabe reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Haha.
I found the perfect cartoon that I think sums up @Scribe 's week
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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...
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prabe reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Haha.
Don't you mean "Um, actually..."? If we're gonna be pedantic, let's be meta-pedantic, too.
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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 Like.
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...
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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...