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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yeah, I absolutely tweak what’s happening at the table based on feedback & what works and what doesn’t. So long as I’m enjoying the...
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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
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Why? Maybe because you don't have enough like-minded people around to run the game exactly how you want to do it? Or maybe you really... -
Zzakael19 reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The reason I introduced new tools was because there were parts of the game I wasn't enjoying not because any of my players had issues.
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I’m reminded now that of that group of 4 players who’d never played D&D but were huge CR fans & loved BG3, two things from 4e really...
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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.
I know. Just because I have a different focus than you, don't treat me like I don't know the field. Instead, how about you start by...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Daggerheart General Thread [+].You're totally right! The Seraph would be perfect for a setting like that, and if you want to bring guns etc in I think Motherboard...
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ZI had a random thought on the way home: Daggerheart for urban fantasy. Specifically, the kind of urban fantasy exemplified by Dresden...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative with Like.
That's basically what most narrative games (almost all the GM'd ones) do. The old school narrative games are all about cutting the cruft...
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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.
Well, there's also the issue that unless you're playing over in a hardcore "everything is done with description" system, there are...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I’m talking D20 fail forward play here, which stresses evolving the situation on a failure. This is everywhere in 5e GM advice these...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's been a big change in my experience; I started with an understanding that dice are the failure state. Good play involves...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Daggerheart General Thread [+].Absolutely, and I’d point players back to the core Player Best Practice of “Embrace Danger” which explicitly calls out overthinking...
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ZThat's fair. But in my experience all RPGs involve lots of tedious planning, which is why I love flashbacks. You could also go the...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sure, there’s some players who don’t really want to play a RPG either - they just want to tell stories and throw a d20 as a dice of fate...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread Daggerheart General Thread [+].I don’t think I’d bother, unless it was a Frame specifically about a premise that involves a lot of planning you want to elide - the...