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TwoSix replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Maybe not in your D&D games. I've been doing that for a long time. How else am I supposed to know if there's a cleric in the town? I... -
TwoSix reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I'm roughly in agreement with @Emerikol... it's down to dislike; which is a fact about a given player's relationship with the game... -
TwoSix reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm surprised to hear you'd rule out the possibility of a cleric in say Tilverton (while it was extant), if one were not expressly...
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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.
As I have posted, I understand your assertion. I disagree with it. The fact that the player's action establishes backstory elements that...
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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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Really? The player doesn't (in 3E) pull out their Power Attack spreadsheet? Or (in any version of the game) check that the cleric has... -
TwoSix reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The player can't "dictate reality". They can contribute to a shared fiction. That's called playing a RPG. You seem to be thinking of...
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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.
Yes. The player is playing a RPG. As part of that, the player authored some fiction. That's what happens when someone plays a RPG! The...
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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.
The player authors a fiction. The character discovers a reality. How is that hard?
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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.
From the post where I introduced the example: If you haven't read the example, or noted that the action declaration is about reducing or...
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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.
Yet you have managed to say some sensible things about how it plays!
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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 seem to have played and GMed more Burning Wheel, Torchbearer and Marvel Heroic RP/Cortex+ Heroic than any other poster in this thread...
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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.
No. That's just wrong. There is no "reversal of causality". There is the use of dice to track other correlations. Eg the...
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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.
Really? I don't think @Lanefan gets that the episode of play, involving the runes, was not from map-and-key based, puzzle-solving play...
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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.
Quite a way upthread, I asked you why you seem unable or unwilling to talk about RPGing done in accordance with different principles 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 Like.
In MHRP, by default the Doom Pool is simply an opposition dice pool. So the most immediate consequence of failing an action is wasting...