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Xamnam reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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Being a person isn't being human. If we develop sapient AI or meet sapient aliens they will be people. I would expect "people means... -
Xamnam reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
For games that rely on PC's to map the dungeon, it's often an adventure design point to deliberately attempt to confuse the players and...
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Xamnam reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
The same. A lot of players are really bad at drawing. Others are bad at learning faux-history. D&D is about players having fun, not...
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Xamnam reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
First, please note that dismissing, or labeling things as bad, because of "political correctness" is against the site's inclusivity...
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Xamnam reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with Like.
Because of it's massive size, D&D is in a bit of a unique situation. It is best served by being "good enough" for a broad swath of...
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Xamnam reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I think the fundamental issue here is a discomfort with players wanting different things than the DM does. I think it's a control issue...
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Xamnam reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with Like.
So, I’m not a player who really cares about the strictness of RAW. In a case like that, I defer to the DM, and if I’m the DM, I try to...
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Xamnam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
You know, it's funny I've never heard about these entitled snowflake players until maybe the last few years and almost always in the...
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Xamnam reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
No. Because that's not how improv works. The person who makes the offer makes the offer. They are establishing the parameters. They...
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Xamnam reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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I don't like that your argument is ultimately about the motivations of the players, and in a distinctly disparaging way ("crown of... -
Xamnam replied to the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties.I personally have no issue with a DM wanting a specific setting, genre, tropes, and desiring a certain blend of usual denizens to...
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Xamnam reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with
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Yeah, I've tried that. And then every player comes forward and wants to play a "secret" elf or a Tiefling. The second I try to put any... -
Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
Verisimilitude… reduces immersion…? That’s a first. I don’t agree that an adventuring party full of outlandish characters within an...
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Xamnam reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
That’s because it’s the former that follows from the latter. It’s not that they’re an oddballs because they’re adventurers, it’s that...
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Xamnam reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties with Like.
I can't be the only one who thinks "traditional fantasy world" is an oxymoron right? The whole point of a fantasy world is that it's...