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SableWyvern replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, I've always read it is players who legitimately feel it's the way the character would behave. That could be because they're... -
SableWyvern reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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People are bad at risk assessment in terms of like, "future planning" and stuff. We also love doing risky stuff. We also tend to... -
SableWyvern reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If I want the players to know that the NPC is nervous or lying, I've always been able to make it pretty obvious.
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SableWyvern replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It it is my understanding that it is fairly well accepted that people are, in general, not great at assessing risk. This, then, appears...
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SableWyvern reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
it's actually like saying if you miss your attack and fail to kill them then the enemy is still going to be an obstacle on your next turn.
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SableWyvern reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's more like saying that if you miss in combat, in order to slay your foe you're going to have to attack at least once more.
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SableWyvern reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's where the player's imagination has to step up, taking what the DM describes and fleshing it out into a more complete scene. Most...
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SableWyvern reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But there's a big difference between "Tell them everything they need to know including the outcome" and "Tell them what their characters...
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SableWyvern reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
The only point I'll add is that there is a Medical/Healing proficiency in the game; a character (or hireling, or familiar) with 2 to 3...
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SableWyvern reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If the point is that because you are not in character 100% of the time that anything not in character should be acceptable then that’s...
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SableWyvern reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I regularly modify monsters to make them more or less challenging. Every once in a while I tweak monsters just to shake things up a...
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SableWyvern reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The guard showing up may have made sense in the fiction of the world. That's not my point. It's that they only showed up because of a...
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SableWyvern reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My whole point was that it’s not just that one single word… If I start describing my preference as wanting ic-authentic play and your...
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SableWyvern reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But then you’ll eventually have an epiphany and find some instance where I tolerate player action harmful to IC- authenticity and we’ll...
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SableWyvern reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think most people have been pretty clear on what they want for the different roles of the game. We may want different things and I...