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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It's also not how I play, outside of establishing background information in session 0. In that case it's ok for everyone to take a more... -
The Firebird reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Well, someone is authoring, who do you say it is? I don't do that. And that's how I've played D&D for 43 years. -
The Firebird reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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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.
As a random encounter? No problem. Added as a result of a failed attempt to open a lock when it takes the same amount of time, makes...
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The Firebird reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
@pemerton just for clarification. Are you arguing that even those that eschew formally making things up on the spot are doing so...
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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.
There is in fact a difference. I came up with that town waaaaaaay before that session, so that's when the farrier was there, not during...
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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.
By quantum do you mean the roll fixes not just the present situation but also the past situation? Like I don’t view an attack roll as...
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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.
IME when "something else happens", resolving it invariably takes up more (sometimes much more) time than "nothing happens" would have*...
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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.
You've many times gone on about how rolling for the runes and rolling to kill an Orc are the same thing. So explain me this difference...
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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.
Accepting for the sake of argument that the cases are distinct, I've been trying to understand just why? Many modes of play assign...
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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 really doesn't matter, since we are treating both sides as "quantum." It's not as if we are just aiming the term at your playstyle...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yep. There is no point in going through it again. The argument has been well stated and looked at from lots of angles and there are very...
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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.
I answered it several time. Quantum for the DM before the players encounter it =/= quantum for the players hitting a random encounter...
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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.
That's probably because they aren't the same. How many times do we have to say that there's a difference between the DM rolling in...
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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 cook only exists because of a failed roll that has no diegetic reason. I'm not going to argue about it any more. It's pointless...