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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
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Random encounters happen when PCs are at a location. I roll them in advance to give me time, but they are already at that location. If... -
The Firebird reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean, we've established that you really shouldn't use a lot of fail-forward if your focus of play is on navigating pre-established...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..At a minimum, in the GMs mind or notes. Just odds of existence are enough; "2-in-6, cook" for example. No. Something like "in each...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah it is pretty similar. Hmm. I guess I wanted to make the actions being distinct more clear? FWIW I've seen that example play out...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I want to emphasize and pull out this point because it demonstrates exactly my problem with these systems. Here, the players took some...
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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'm right there with you on the giving up part. I've finally realized how divergent the definitions of fail forward are ... and as far...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Really nice list. For me all of these except (1) and (6), and (7) are ok. (1) Is bad for obvious reasons; (6) has too high probability...
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The Firebird reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
it makes a difference because then it matters what approach the PCs take in the entry, the NPCs do exist in their set locations, the GM...
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The Firebird reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It turns out that there are a lot of different types of “quantum” at play in RPGs. I think it might be good for conversation to have a...
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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.
Because it's a wizard's tower and the first floor is for entertaining guests, not living. Remember, it's her, the apprentice and the...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Which is fine, but then there'd be light in the kitchen both for the cook to see by and from any cook-fires she had going. Odds are...
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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.
It's not quantum. It's entirely irrelevant whether or not it's quantum to me. Once the encounter is established, it can't be quantum...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's just how that DM ran it: tough challenges to which he wasn't going to give you the answers. The riddle was an oddity in that...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's taken a whole lot o' practice, to be sure, but these days I rarely goof up when reading or paraphrasing notes unless the notes...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I must have missed this the first time round. If memory serves (this happened in about 1992), there was quite a bit of laughter along...