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tetrasodium reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with
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Look, we're talking about a teenage girl who stepped up to Dungeon Master for the very first time, running a game for a bunch of adults... -
tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Entitlement? I mentioned my experience with the group in question because the accusations I got for simply enforcing the rules of the...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Yes "arbitrary inconsistent rules" are annoying. But the critical detail I is that players being unfamiliar with printed rules of the...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Yes but your reply seems to echo the OP with the assumption that the GM is the one changing the rules rather than allowing for the...
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tetrasodium reacted to Mort's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with
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I was responding to a different, much later, of post, that was talking about how the person running has the right to change rules. Which... -
tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.No you are missing a step in the analogy. You might need to compete Chinese checkers night and a list of frustrations over how that...
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tetrasodium reacted to Sorcerers Apprentice's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with Like.
The difference is that part of the rules of RPGs is that the GM decides what the rules are, changing the rules as needed is part of the...
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tetrasodium reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes? with Like.
But the other way to look at it is that this person has volunteered to host Poker night because no one else wanted to do it. So if the...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.I think more noteworthy is that by completely redesigning a lot of sacred cows like the attack roll and really leaning into class based...
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tetrasodium reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
The upside is that DS has a bias towards always letting you do something on a turn. It’s not very cinematic to fail a Save Ends roll and...
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tetrasodium reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
I want to point out that Draw Steel actually has an obvious causal tag along option implemented - just not advertised as such...
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tetrasodium reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
They've kept all the classes operating under the same base conditions for balance purposes. Everybody has resource gain + spend...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.Malice helps a lot, it's pretty much the director's unspoken "spice things up near quantum fueling resource" . Initiative is a bit...
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This is exactly it. I think they didn’t want to hear about martials complaining that casters can do stuff they can’t. Furies become...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.I think that is an oversimplification that blames luck or the system for poor teamwork and a refusal of players to communicate in ways...