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TwoSix reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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The proposal here was to have a meta chat. In your group that might not be neccessary, as you have already agreed to this being the... -
TwoSix reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The fiction might be why we play the game. I can imagine other reasons, too: fun, expressing system mastery, socialization, and so on...
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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.
Because that's the GM's job in the game? Here is some text from p 5 of the rulebook: What Is the Game Like? Have you ever wanted to...
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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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My main interest in these sorts of discussions is clearly setting out techniques. It's from others clearly setting out techniques that I... -
TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Your question rests on a false premise: namely, that deciding what game and what scenario to play is itself something resolved by action...
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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.
Tests are things that happen in the real world, not in the imaginary world. In the fiction, the PC - for example - tries to scale a...
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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.
I find the description of "missed encounter" extremely counterintuitive. I mean, it's not a phrase I've ever used to describe my life...
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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.
What's left is hit-point based combat, which is pretty poor for anything "modern" or "gritty". Hit points are already a tenuous fit for...
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TwoSix reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D Debuts Playtest for Psion Class with
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The updated Dark Sun campaign setting should be: "John Brown gets isekai'd to Athas after Harper's Ferry, chaos ensues" -
TwoSix reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Opinions on flexibility of games that utilize daily resource refresh or other time-based resource refreshes are going to very much...
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TwoSix reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Psionics: What Do You Want? with Like.
A more flexible system where you spend a point-based resource to do smaller things, rather than the computer program-like "packages"...
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TwoSix replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The core issue with using D&D as a generic toolkit system is its magic system. D&D has an incredibly specific, bespoke magic system...
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TwoSix reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No, I understand what he said. Why does he need to defend his playstyle preferences to? Why would anyone feel that need? What I'm...
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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.
And your response tells me that something is failing to get communicated here. I'm not inventing anything, GMSs in this paradigm are...
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TwoSix reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Crawford isn't using 5E though, which is what's usually suggested, but a very heavily modified OSR variant of D&D, which is in fact...