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Zzakael19 reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries with
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?.Yeah, sure, it’s pretty explicit about this up front. It’s got an Agenda and Principles the GM is asked to consider themselves bound by...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Note that like “separate” soft and hard moves are a post-AW convention conversational. AW just has Moves; when a player Ts up a golden...
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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.
We're in agreement here. There's differences, of course, but I see so much overlap that I'm genuinely bewildered by suggestions to the...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries.It’s really a setting about re-kindling hope in a bleak and desolate land. In that way, it’s a perfect fit. The “campaign frame” also...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..You’ve misunderstood what I meant. Part of the intent of a world/city that has events happening independent of player action that then...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I think I’ve been pointing out that BITD does the “living world” thing built in a way I haven’t seen any other larger scale commercial...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So here is how the 2014 DMG defines the DM's role: When I read this, I see constraints and duties. Ones I am occasionally willing to...
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Zzakael19 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I have found myself prepping less and less of late...not sure when that started. I have set scenes which we roleplay through, I'm not...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, I do not think D&D would benefit from additional constraints on the DM, but it already has some - they are just constraints that...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart? with Like.
That explains why the Humblewood setting calls their rac-folk Mapache! I always meant to look it up and never got around to it. Some of...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Kichwas's post in the thread What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart? with Like.
Mapache - That's their Spanish name. Mapachtli - That's their Aztec name. I'd go with "Mapachtli" as it's one of the original names of...
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Zzakael19 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It was more a comment to something that occurred in another thread where I suggested something and a poster immediately jumped to the...
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Zzakael19 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Bolded emphasis mine. I'm running Trad Sandbox, so much of what you write if not all is fairly familiar to me, however the best way I...
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Zzakael19 reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
First, I'm not sure that a rule about when to call for rolls is a mechanical constraint? I mean, is the principle that a GM in 5e D&D...