Xamnam's latest activity
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Xamnam reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with
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I think one can argue that5e, at least, doesn't really push you toward any of CaW, CaS, or CaT - other editions certainly did, but 5e... -
Xamnam reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread D&D General Combat as War vs. Sport and a Missing Third Mode with Like.
I’ve seen the “Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport” framework come up a lot in TTRPG discussions, and I think it’s a very useful...
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Xamnam reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread D&D General Weird "DnD Is Dead" Youtube Trend?? with Like.
Category B still makes people think about D&D as if it is dying. Fueling disinformation just to draw clicks to a take that doesn't help...
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I don't have any sense of the 5e play culture, beyond what I read on these boards. But the idea that there is a tension between having...
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Feels like this is fundamentally about skill design, not adventure design. You want the skills to point to abilities players want to use...
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Despite having run many different games for many, many players over the years (due to running at cons) I think the "I roll perception!"...
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I don't believe those things are mutually exclusive. You can certainly designs systems where the players have to come up with clever...
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Xamnam reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I think this really depends on the type of players you have at your table. I have some players who're very active and will pursue leads...
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Xamnam reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
The trick with player-driven gaming is to make sure the PCs each have several really solid, specific, and actionable goals baked in...
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Xamnam reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I have never bothered with player-driven campaigns, because players have this idea that the world exists around them. So they should be...
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Xamnam reacted to Sulicius's post in the thread WotC WotC Winter 2026 D&D Community Survey with Like.
Well, those bastion protections didn't stop me in my current campaign. Still, I can see your point. That doesn't mean it's "DM Hostile"...
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It seems as though it should be possible to make a character who notices things, or who knows things. As a GM I actually prefer having...
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@Bill Zebub Don't take this the wrong way, it's not attack or anything like that. But from this, and posts on other topics, i get the...
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To have fun playing a game that includes the tropes of the desired genre without necessarily getting personally uncomfortable.
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Xamnam reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Neopets terminates Geekify's license, TTRPG in jeopardy with Like.
There is no reason to include a section in the rules about how to deal with sexual content if the game is meant to be about raising pets...