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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
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@thefutilist and I and @hawkeyefan all discussed this upthread. A cook is implicit in a kitchen, in the same way that soldiers are... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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What I'm speaking to is what sort of fiction different approaches are most well suited to. Task resolution is much more well suited to... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
What I was trying to say is that the play techniques and play loops we commonly associate with D&D and similar games do an excellent job...
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Zzakael19 reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Absolutely - I certainly agree it's something that people can find feeling awkward after being used to something one way. It's...
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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 feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of...
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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'm similar. I run the games that please my players. There's a ton of stuff out there I'm interested in playing that my usual players...
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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
Love.
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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.
Except, as I said, I do. So maybe you don't want to use absolutes?
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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 Haha.
This is not correct. I mean, I learned to play BW from Revised. I only quote Gold because the text is available as a free download from...
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Zzakael19 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes. The fact that D&D is so commonly used for a simulationist agenda (or play with no particular CA agenda that has simulationist...
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Zzakael19 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The thread up to this point has made it pretty clear that "quantum" is the enemy, whatever form it might take. But even if we grant...
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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
Wow.
I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for... -
Zzakael19 reacted to Campbell's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...
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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.
Whoever made the table it controls the result. Especially if it's not just straight numbers--if there's any sort of curve, then the...
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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.
Because the things it says are very similar to some FKR manifestos, and there is also some overlap with "blorb" principles. To me it...