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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Likewise, describing an approach as 'player driven' might imply other approaches are not player driven. I would say 'GM constructed'... -
The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Sounds like the 100% perfection straw man is at it again, ready to tell everyone they shouldn't bother with trying to make a plausible... -
The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..An example I gave earlier in Blades had the player trying to get past two guards. They are choosing whether to sneak (Prowl...
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The Firebird reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
In the BW example, it seems like the important stuff comes down to number 3 and it is not influenced by step 0.5 that you didn't...
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think it is. This is once again an issue of conflicting definitions that people assign value to, and it will never end.
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The Firebird reacted to Guest 85555's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
One of the reasons for rulings over rules is so that flair can be considered by the gm in the rules implementation. The idea is if the...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think there's a deeper point to @AlViking's post. It brought to my mind the Rules Elide essay, which has gotten some discussion. To...
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The Firebird reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I took a look at the play reports you posted and a few things stood out to me. One was that Si Juk is now immune to persuasion which I...
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The Firebird reacted to robertsconley's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So Lord Acton’s famous dictum: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” is a powerful quote but it's being...
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The Firebird reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Players can railroad as well. Railroading is primarily a state of mind, an approach to the activity that prioritises plot. Failure to...
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The Firebird reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I would say that this kind of exercise in collective storytelling is fine, but it has little resemblance to D&D. It is in fact closer to...
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The Firebird reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That does sound really not fun at all!
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The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And now you conflate authority over a game with authority over people.
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The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If the players can choose to interact with the world however they want through their PCs, and they choose to bite at one of the...
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The Firebird reacted to Guest 85555's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think this is a hit over the top