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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I meant narrative games. But the same is true of all games--the GM probably shouldn't put stuff in the players don't know about yet... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is something I've REALLY struggled with both as a DM and trying to get players on board with this idea. The notion that because...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It on the other hand is impossible to make the argument that Daggerheart does stop-motion as opposed to dramatic and chaotic combat. The...
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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.
I mentioned this in regard to PbtA games, but it applies to trad ones too: if you've got players who have a different sense of what...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Well, that's entirely the point of these games. From BitD's GM Prinicples: Let everything flow from the fiction. The game’s starting...
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ZNo, I don't think of it as prep. I have ideas for our game all the time, but they aren't fully realized and I don't think of prepping...
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ZThe fact you think a campaign that says in a place is harder to prep than one that moves around, and my experience is that it works the...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
So, making it up seconds before is OK? Because I know that if the player says "I'm going to try to do this thing," my mind is already...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The Firebird said that when they ran BitD, they felt like they were "cheating" because: Except that these are all things that GMs...
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Zzakael19 replied to the thread D&D General Zero-Prep D&D Game?.I just do this in play, or during my walk as I build a possibility cloud. I’m not sure our brains let us show up to anything but a...
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ZI get you. But I would be hard pressed to not "cast forward" based on the things that have happened. I tend to think of RPGs as episodic...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I consider Daggerheart an excellent game based on having played and run it - but it is absolutely the wrong game for you given what I...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
But... you would know what happens on a success in a trad game as well. In fact, there's a good chance you would have written everything...
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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.
The reason we cannot know what happens on success (beyond the player achieving whatever their intent was) is because the GM has not...
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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.
Indeed, it is so good that it can find patterns that aren't even there. Er, others have those players too, right?