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XXetheral reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Well, as I've argued previously in various other threads, I don't divide things in this way. I don't claim my game-(design-)purposes are... -
XXetheral replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It's overly simplistic, but I'm nevertheless a fan of the general principle in modeling that similar things should be modeled similarly...
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XXetheral reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yep! There's alot of pros to the techniques, even for use outside a purely narrativistic agenda there's a good set of pros for many of...
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XXetheral replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..In the abstract, avoiding having "nothing happen" is a good thing because it has the decided benefit of helping prevent play bogging...
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XXetheral reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think it is important to understand why a result "feeling unrelated to" the check is a really bad thing in a certain style of play...
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XXetheral reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't think this is really true. Let's say we have a scenario where there are two paths through a wood. One passes by a cave where...
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XXetheral reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think if the conclusion here is "people dislike narrative games for well founded reasons about what they get out of play" rather than...
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XXetheral reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I want to emphasize and pull out this point because it demonstrates exactly my problem with these systems. Here, the players took some... -
XXetheral reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I think that's slightly reductive, that's also part of a set of principled restrictions on the GM's power, and it's part of the board...
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XXetheral reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And it actually does! Because the DM put the work in outside the playspace at the table. I think it's silly to assert that in a game...
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XXetheral reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is not a correct criticism of my position. I don't mind that the DM is making things up. I mind if they do so in a manner which...
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XXetheral reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I was struggling to follow your reasoning on why quantum and why not earlier but this makes more sense. It's that you are viewing the...
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XXetheral reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is a good description of the difference. I want to feel like things I don't know matter and have weight, because it amplifies the...
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XXetheral reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
What you're describing is the 100% realism strawman. The idea that, because one's priority is verisimilitude, and perfect verisimilitude...
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XXetheral reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
We're going around in circles and I think I'm not explaining myself well. My whole point is that fail forward design structure can...