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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
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Yup. If they weren't so clearly biased towards the "N" in GNS, I might take them more seriously. -
The Firebird reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah, but I can't help but think "different techniques" and "work against each other" aren't really the same thing. Yup. Frankly, I...
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The Firebird reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Maybe so. I was thinking about how to get around dividing them on qualities relating to realism and immersion (not that I think either...
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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.
Yes they knew it was there and had to find it in order to achieve their goal. So in my game, let's say they want to find papers that...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Your use of 'legal' suggests a specific frame by which to judge. There's no reason why we should accept that. If someone buys the legal...
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The Firebird reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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And they do? 4e is D&D. Objectively, it is. This isn't my decision. It's the decision of the people who are legally entitled to make... -
The Firebird reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sorry but you don’t get to decide the objective identity of the thing.
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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.
Does everyone have to be happy with the game all the time?
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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.
Ah! That is the context you are missing! The context was bringing fail-forward techniques into traditional games with no regard for any...
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The Firebird reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The problem with that is his statement could be reframed as "Anything can be a hammer if you hit things with it." Genre emulation is...
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The Firebird 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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Come on, man, we don't want to have that argument. Everyone was more or less getting along. -
The Firebird reacted to Argyle King's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
Having someone else pay the debt is not something that I believe gives Bledsaw a more favorable position. Assuming people know who he is...
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The Firebird reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Narrativism includes the phenomenon of narrative immersion. Game mechanics, by themselves, are too simplistic to paint the details that...
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The Firebird reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And now you know why many people don’t view 4e d&d as real d&d. You know this though, which is why I don’t understand why you bring 4e...
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The Firebird reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Let’s try it this way. Every game that does what I described, placing both internal to character and external to character things as...