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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    I think the problem is more about labels and definitions. I find it rather judgmental to metaphorically wave a finger and accuse "you don't know what process sim IS". And then if a person adopts the term just to have a shared language, then gets accused of using someone else's label incorrectly...
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    D&D 4E This isn't my 4e - I like it!

    If you're going to define my own motives, the least you could do is elaborate your accusations, instead of these incredibly unhelpful one liners. It wasn't the focus of my point, which was about 'Dragons', so no, I did not provide an example. (I assumed Dungeons & Dungeons is 1e gamist 'tomb of...
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    D&D 4E This isn't my 4e - I like it!

    See post #5 . I was using your own terminology. Again, using your own terminology. 'Dragons' play with 'Dragons' crunch. It's still the game of D&D. I don't understand your accusation. I don't follow. 1) What did you mean that 4E was 'Dragons' at the expense of 'Dungeons'? 2) You missed the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    Seems that I'm at risk for being called a bogus psychologist now, but if so, I'm a sincere one... Preamble: I have not played the abovementioned games because nobody was playing them in our group, probably because they seem fiddly and complicated, but I don't remember. I have played other...
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    Why do Halflings get damage bonuses?

    The PHB really needs a sidebar in the character creation rules that indicates that racial abilities represent the PCs/heroes specifically. It is then up to the DM to decide if PC racial abilities are also reflective of the racial population at large. That is, racial abilities are...
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    To be clear, I didn't say that 4e was "vegetable". I wrote that 4E moved "towards vegetable". "Unified the playstyle" was a brief way of saying that 4E is better at making D&D deliver "vegetable". So with that clarified, is that a contentious statement? Crazy Jerome said himself that D&D is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    Uh no, not really, not in an objective sense anyway. 1) The analogy assumes that the ice cream, etc. are equally accessible as the vegetables. They're not. At least not in the mainstream world (where people don't have a cupboard full of dozens of rpgs). 2) It assumes that these other desserts...
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    Whither the gnome?

    From the land of faerie, there were 4 little brothers. One liked to hide and play with forest animals and annoy the elves, one liked to hide in caves and annoy the dwarves, one was a nerd fascinated with windmills and spectacles and magnets and stole tools and tinkered with them incessantly, and...
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    Whither the gnome?

    Those look like bearded halflings or skinny dwarves. In the monster design, they went through great lengths to differentiate orcs from goblins from hobgoblins from gnolls. Whatever form gnomes take, I suspect WoTC will be asking the same pointed questions about differentiating the shorter...
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    I guess, although there's so much irritation and victim complexes going around from all the sides of the fences (it's like the Hundred Stooges around here), I'm not sure what's the chicken and egg anymore. Otherwise, thanks for the summary.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [D&D Next] Second Packet - initial impressions

    I agree with Imaro, I'm also not into that playstyle personally, but your choice of words read to me like extending a hand and slapping the face at the same time. For shame. If I used the same choice of words towards the 4E playstyle, I would receive a backlash like no other, and I would...
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    D&D 4E This isn't my 4e - I like it!

    I did NOT state in any way shape or form that 4E is not D&D. That deserved to be bolded. I could have written "Lovely. Just what this forum needed. Someone trying to redefine things so that no editions except 4e are (the best at) 'Dragons'". I know from other threads that you and I are on...
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    What a steaming pile of otyugh feces!

    I can't help it, I feel like I've turned into a bit of a Schadenfreude monster... mu ha ha ha
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    I didn't know that, honestly. Why? From the Forge or the CharOp crowd? You wanted to understand the immersion mandate, I think you were already half-waiting to put someone on the psychologist's sofa and play amateur psychologist :) From a recent post of mine, it might follow that...
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    D&D 4E This isn't my 4e - I like it!

    Despite the 12+ xp that the OP rec'd, it still bugs me. I think there are at least 3 major strands: Dragons & Dragons Dragons & Dungeons Dungeons & Dungeons Dragons & Dragons "4e" is where the mechanics presupposes/predestines heroic fantasy Dragons & Dungeons "often 2e and sometimes 3e" is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) [D&D Next] Second Packet - initial impressions

    Using phrases like "whatever crap", "flak", "crud", "some value of 'enjoy'", "dysfunctional", "inevitable, miserable fate", "arbitrary crap", "ignorance", "breathing tube above the surface", "some small measure of a breathing space" is a very strange way of acknowledging or validating another...
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    D&D 5E (2014) With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base

    Who is this evil bogeyman who keeps saying that your choice to offer author stance playstyle is "so bad"? I keep hearing about this sinister man of straw. Is it Innerdude? If not Innerdude, are you asking Innerdude as if he's a proxy to some shub-niggurath or are you just crying out dramatically...
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    D&D 4E This isn't my 4e - I like it!

    If Caves of Chaos is delivering Dungeon play for most people (unsupported assumption though), I think WoTC is already leaning towards making the same mistake that 4E did with dungeon delves
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    Why do Halflings get damage bonuses?

    Size matters. Reach matters, strength/weight matters. You'd get a visceral (ie., non speculative, non thereotical) feeling for the difference in power when you're kicked by a 200 lb opponent vs a 150 lb opponent assuming both are equally skilled. And that's not even remotely close to a 40 to...
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    Why do Halflings get damage bonuses?

    That's a useful conversation :)
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