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In my main group, some of the players have an acknowledged tendency to go down planning ratholes. They've gotten much better about it... -
Thomas Shey reacted to DinoInDisguise's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Thomas Shey reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Real life is often boring, frustrating, or all-around awful, none of which are good things for a game. If the players are actually...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, for some of us interacting with the mechanics isn't just something on the way to the story, its part of the point in the exercise...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs..I'll be really blunt here: I see no sign explaining further will get me any further with you and I don't owe you anything. If you think...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..This is a pretty important issue in regard to this. You can kind of afford to be sloppy in doing this sort of thing in a superhero...
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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.
I suppose a mechanical consideration of this that does deserve more attention is that not having fail forward style contingent fiction...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I agree. The idea that you can't get past by this one particular way should be used sparingly at best, but there should always be ways...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Eric V's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
13th Age has a similar "Fail Forward" philosophy: "...outside of battle, true failure tends to slow action down rather than move the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That depends on the GM. Also the edition. Two of the above spells don't exist in 5e, for example. It's also possible that the casters...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Gilladian's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My home games (we reverted to 3.5e because I have all the toys and like the way we play it…) are definitely player-influenced, in a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Though it can do that, that's not the only place SPoF comes in; if you set up a situation (and by "set up" I can just mean deciding once...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Part of it was that the RQ system felt intuitive to us in a way that, honestly, OD&D never did. I think at the end of the day we were...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
We’re in the middle of replacing a HOUSEFUL of electronics & tech. We only change out devices when we absolutely have to, and take care...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Outgunned Superheroes.Well, they're done now. I've got to say, if you go in asking for 10,000 euros and end up with 500,000, you're obviously doing something...