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TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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No one is missing this. What they are saying is that (i) it's often very far from clear how a person is "supposed" to act; and (ii) if... -
TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If your authorial output is the product of your mental model, the authorial output is not itself a model of anything. I mean, suppose...
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TwoSix reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean Dolmenwood is a pretty darn incoherent/implausible setting but an amazing sandbox! It’s full of magical mushroom faeries, doors...
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TwoSix reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not so sure about that... I think there's a fairly significant element of deliberate and 'eyes open' kind of design in many...
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TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Let me put it this way: Suppose I'm trying to teach someone how to run a living world sandbox. Which way of describing it seems more...
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TwoSix reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This to me is where the real differences lay. Not in how plausible things are, but in the objective of play. That sandboxes present...
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TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Only in the same sense as your favoured games: dice are rolled and results announced. The interesting difference is in the principles...
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TwoSix reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Aligns with group's goals can easily be replaced with aligns with character's goals. Have you found any examples in this thread where...
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TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Who is "tearing down", or saying that things don't work? I mean, here's a post from upthread: Where you justify interrogating me...
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TwoSix reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok. Great. If setting fidelity is pretty important to a particular definition of a sandbox, but not important in another definition of...
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TwoSix reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is the old "only roll once" thing. In the formulations I've seen (widely used outside of BW and long predating it) the GM should...
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TwoSix reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
We get it, you dont like any game that imposes uncertainty on character internal states. Can we maybe all agree to drop this line? It's...
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TwoSix reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I’ve even seen some PBTAs bringing downtime actions in to build an episodic structure and create that sort of focused downtempo scenes.
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TwoSix reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Would it be fair to say as compared to games where we build setting out from the characters that there is more focus on setting and less...
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TwoSix replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You do realize, in absolutely standard English, something being the priority doesn’t mean that it’s the only thing that matters?