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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
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A GM can never provide every single detail. I provide enough details so that the players can understand and make informed decisions... -
The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And two comments I thought that revealed things in a particular salient way. @pemerton doesn't mean this positively, but I think it...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Second, regarding changing the fiction, there are some misunderstandings about how fixed the world can be. I don't agree with your...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Let me pull out some salient points. First, I argued that narrative games do not allow you to 'play to win' in the same way trad games...
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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.
Wouldn't you be the one to answer that question?
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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.
The player decided what the runes said, which is fine in a collaborative style game. I just don't happen to want to play that style of...
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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 asked about examples of fail forward> To me that's a partial success, which is different from fail forward. The preexisting clock...
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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.
This entire thread is going round and round in circles faster than a windmill in a hurricane, and it’s all down to people’s imagining...
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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 difference that immediately strikes me is that in trad, GM will have described or implied that the wall has a top that can be...
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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.
One depends on a person’s ability, the other does not.
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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.
A chateau cook stays in their place of work - the kitchen, unless they are called away by something, or they are in bed. They don’t...
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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.
you don't see how 'on a success you navigated the weak sections of the wall and reached the top, on a failure you didn't and fell' is...
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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.
no, you misunderstand, i said i would never change the state of the fiction in response to a check, if the wall is solid it's solid, if...
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The Firebird reacted to MrBeens304's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It is however very easy to interpret things as "attacks" on things when many people in this thread use absolute statements like "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.
The adding of colour doesn't change what happens next in the fiction. The adding of the cook very much does, as her screams waken the...