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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Ofc and I do the same too. I did later post as to the reason of my comment.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    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 sure if they should really be called framing. I do not believe they are in any way the type of framing @pemerton produces. So generally I have a few ideas of...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Are you saying the new ST series are lacking magic and that if we used the same writers of those new magic-lacking ST series, their writing would somehow improve to magic-catching quality because it was DS9's continuance rather than the Original or Next Gen?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    I was liking what you were saying and then I think you stopped a tad short when you mentioned party context. I really thought you were going to say setting context. For D&D the high magic dial is turned all the way up and if that wasn't enough someone broke it. Thus the ranger and some other...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    It was more a comment to something that occurred in another thread where I suggested something and a poster immediately jumped to the worst possible scenario of how players would react. Their comment was indicative about the lack of trust/faith which can occur between GMs and players from both...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    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 believe, that I have achieved the above is by including some player-facing mechanics. I'm not nearly close to the level that some others in this thread are at...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    In both instances examples (yours and Lanefan's) interesting events occurred with a supposedly innocuous RE. - who are these heroes who took care of the bandits? Lanefan could potentially use them into the future, just as he used the bandits to expand the setting. - which town did they take...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Apologies I'm not clear what you're telling me here. Are you asking me when did you reply to @AbdulAlhazred or correcting me that you replied to them?
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    The convo which I picked up began with @AbdulAlhazred (but likely earlier) where they mentioned how much of everything is GM decided, even the bandits in @Bedrockgames RE tables. A conversation about how much content is GM decided was then argued between @Maxperson and @EzekielRaiden, with...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    So I have mate who joined my current campaign for a small stint in OotA. He required a pretty easy enough 10th-level character to play (as the rest of the party are quite high level) and anything complex it just gonna slow the game down. The concept would also have to be interesting, i.e. not...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Thank you for this. I did indeed see portions of a few of your videos and I did pick up on the importance of first-person speaking for your Living World games. I also imagined there were more ideas from LARPing that have been pulled through in the effort to realise the immersive experience for...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

    So what is the skinny, are people convinced we should keep the Ranger?
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Do you disagree that you have a hand in directing play (the emerging story) via the scenes you frame?
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I think it is fair to say that there is an element of storytelling that exists within the role of every GM, how much of that role is storytelling depends on the processes used for the emerging story. EDIT: So I'm not offended when @Hussar calls me a storyteller, in the same way that WotC refers...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Hey I meant to ask you this before - as you've used this term in replies to me. What is a boffer LARP? I know what a LARP is, I'm just not familiar with the term boffer LARP.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Party split, Menzobarranzan and Elturel
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    D&D General 1s and 20s: D&D's Narrative Mechanics

    None of that is what I was suggesting. This is an unnecessary alarmist reply. The 1 and 20 is supposed to describe the failure and success not the ending the scene or gaining some sort of mechanic benefit. The rules of the game are still followed, you don't just get to declare decapitation or...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Something else that occurred in our game last night, the party came across a drow word. Now the understanding of this drow word, would help with an insight check later on, and out of the party members the surface elf and the orc were the only ones who understood elvish but not necessarily drow...
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