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I think social skill challenges in certain social situations can make sense. Primarily ones where the NPC motivations and reasoning... -
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The characters could observe the keep from afar, they might want to roll history to see whether they might know something that would... -
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I mean you can keep denying it all you want. Skill challenges force the fiction to conform to the rules instead of other way around...
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Maybe if you directly addressed the criticism, because I don’t follow the significance of whatever point you are trying to make here...
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The Firebird reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Alternatives to map-and-key with Like.
But that is not what the rules actually do. Rules do not care about obstacles, they care about the number of successful checks. Thus if...
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I’ve gotten that vibe before about my play as well, but it’s usually quickly dismissed Why though? If the premise is this band of...
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In the very first line of your OP you go much further than identifying a fairly well known method, you say most play defaults on an...
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The Firebird reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Alternatives to map-and-key with Like.
Combat rules are structured rigidly to allow a tactical mini game. I would not want all of the game to work like this. Though of course...
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The Firebird reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Alternatives to map-and-key with Like.
Given that you said you meant literal map and key, whole tread is rather weird, given that most roleplaying do not involve such. Instead...
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The Firebird reacted to Jfdlsjfd's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I feel D&D increasingly made creatures similar to each other, to the point that it's now "heroic inspiration once per long rest vs...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.I think there are rules at play in how I assess the fictional state. If the players say they want to sneak across the grounds, I set the...
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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.
Method matters. 10x10=100. So does 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1...........+1+1+1=100. It's not about the result in many cases. It's about how you...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.It's not about what I, the GM, feel. It's about how what fictional state has been reached given the results of individual action...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.I don't think that's true. I never decide when a venture has succeeded based on adding up the number of overall successes. It is based...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Alternatives to map-and-key.Yeah. Think especially of assassination missions, which play out very differently given our knowledge of hp.