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The Firebird reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences with
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Maybe I haven't played enough Tomb Raider video games. I didn't really know there was enough for it to have its own distinct setting... -
The Firebird replied to the thread Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences.There are a number of good systems that do what I want in a Tomb Raider game, and this one didn't seem up my alley, so I'm not that sad...
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The Firebird reacted to Paragon Lost's post in the thread Tomb Raider RPG Cancelled For Creative Differences with Like.
Can't say that I'm unhappy about this. Not a fan of the system myself. I think that there are better mechanics systems out there for...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes. That's what I had in my example and it was not the reason I didn't like it.
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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.
That can be counted a virtue without changing that the information asymmetry makes the cases distinct.
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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.
What I mean is, are you asking about the RPG in play, or the RPG artifact? The designed thing. We've discussed that RPG artifacts don'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.
Is there a reason you've decided this needs to be nitpicked?
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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.
Prior to the situation where it matters.
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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 do expect it, which is why I engage in a regular struggle between the PC success push by the players and the desire for grounded play...
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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.
Hmmm, I think there's some issue of context of surrounding events mattering here; as an example, in the latter case the GM has a greater...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I've clarified several times now that what I meant by cheating was the creation of the cook as a response to player failure. It has...
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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.
One norm for what may count as cheating is adjusting a choice depending on revealed information. That's excluded if the chef is...
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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.
Thinking it up before makes a big difference to some people. I don't think it can be easily brushed aside.
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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 don't know...this still seems more or less true. Details aside, the guard shows up either way in trad games, but not (more or less) in...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, of course it isn't cheating objectively. My OP on the subject said something like "I felt like I was cheating my players", not...