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Zzakael19 reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Leaving aside agreement or disagreement, BY FAR the simplest type of game to run is a dungeon crawl using a system like B/X that is... -
Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
"If"? You've stated my preferences more often than I have in this thread. You've also dodged a lot of what I've had to say. One...
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Zzakael19 reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart with Like.
Maybe I'm weird but that's where I spend most of my time. I start with the referee section and read it multiple times as I slowly work...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread I am surprised I am still excited for Daggerheart with Like.
There's literally no contradiction between those two bolded things. I speak from decades of experience. The contradiction is between...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
1) This thread is over 800 pages long. Do not expect everyone to have seen your magic hat example. 2) While maybe you make all random...
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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That same loose hand is what can often make play less certain for the players. 5e was designed loosely so that GMs could plug the gaps...
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Zzakael19 reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Oh, well, it's a good question! So, look at the constraints that Dungeon World establishes. I don't have the text in front of me, but...
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Zzakael19 reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I mean… the fact that I actively run and play more trad oriented games as well as narrativist ones tends to be ignored because how could...
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Zzakael19 reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Oh I think our styles are fundamentally different, I was just pointing to some similarities. I'll dig in a bit deeper with a somewhat...
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Zzakael19 reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally, I think Ron Edwards is to RPGs what Freud was psychology - undoubtedly influential with some incredibly flawed notions - and...
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Zzakael19 reacted to robertsconley's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I took it as a metaphor for whatever "not fun" thing could happen in a campaign. For example, Total Party Kills.
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Oh I have no interest in the alt-universe stuff there (I forget which media he said he’d been watching that sparked that desire), but...
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Zzakael19 reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Personally, I try to approach a given game in the spirit it was intended, even if it's not quite my thing. Not everyone does, and that...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
See my comment about constantly being lumped in with the more narrative group just because I share a couple positions with them. The...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..So do most OSR games these days. Even D&D 2024 took a stab at it. To not have some degree of best practices, or dislike their presence...