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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.I've occasionally gone to the last page of a thread and had no posts there. I suspect this is a consequence of more than one post in... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Cadence's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Just read the following and couldn't think of a place to post it. From a John McAleer interview of Rex Stout: Q: Why do you invent... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I'm not going to say you're generically wrong here, but I'll just note that back in the day when we shifted over from OD&D to RuneQuest...
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Thomas Shey reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And yet even if you emphasize this, several people have responded as though such comments aren't there. Consider that I wrote the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm glad I stopped to read this, rather than focusing on the original reply, as it almost certainly would have resulted in me kicking a...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Trailer Wicked: For Good | Official whatever with Like.
The second half of the play/movies is pretty plot heavy. It'll be interesting to see if they have a catch-up vignette in the movie or...
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Thomas Shey reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The Trade Baronies expansion adds in what are functionally tweaked Blades in the Dark style playbooks to facilitate narrative play with...
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Thomas Shey reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
“I can do what you do, but better — and without sacrificing what matters to me.” Interesting way to frame a friendly discussion about...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think our steading was ultimately safer than it would have been without Yorath and Vahid, but it wasn't necessarily better positioned...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..From what I saw reading Lancer, it'd probably make me profoundly uncomfortable how loosey-goosey it is once you step out of a mech...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I was going to say, that sounded like what you were reaching for there. I understand why those are baked into the Moves that way; to...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Just as a side note, this would be a bigger problem for me personally than the Complication thing; I like actually engaging with the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There's a framing problem here though; it's not a question of "scenes" at all to the player enjoying the exploration element here. If...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I also want to emphasize something I referenced in passing but didn't go into in any great detail: the fact those consequences are...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I can say with what feels like pretty fair certainty that the number of people who are particularly fond of high chances of failure is...