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Tulul posted:No, it's not art, it's advertising. Disneyland is entirely designed to extract the maximum amount of money from you while you're there. They're not piping cookie scent up to you to enhance your experience, they're doing it to get you to buy a cookie. It's a little bit of both, because Disney isn't selling cookies, it's selling Disney. They're not making it smell like fresh cookies so you want cookies, they're making it smell like fresh cookies to add to the greater "Disney" experience, because frankly they're not even selling cookies in plenty of places they're emitting that smell. They want you to buy into "Disney." It's just that sometimes "Disney" includes "cookies."
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Kai Tave posted:Well, the sort of person who has strong opinions re: the "true feeling" of D&D is probably the sort of person invested in D&D to a higher degree than someone who doesn't give a poo poo either way. I don't think it's unfair to suggest that people who liked 4E probably liked it for reasons that existed besides the point of "has D&D on the cover." This is something I myself don't get. Like, I'm gonna be introducing my friends to ttgs kinda soonish and a few asked if we could play D&D. I told them "It's like D&D but better for enogh stuff. Just trust me, it's really good," and that was that because we're friends and they're on board with poo poo. If your friends do not trust you enough to play a non-D&D game then D&D isn't the problem.
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Ryan Dancey is a loving all star champ at getting people who absolutely know better to give him another chance to gently caress everything up all over again, and then burning all his bridges on the way out, only to somehow find a new person who absolutely knows better to give him yet another chance.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Am I just reading that analogy wrong or are you really saying that the creation of the OGL was a bad thing? I had the impression that it was one of the better things to happen to the hobby The OGL was the best thing to happen to 3.x. If all you want is 3.x forever (or the occasional OSR clone) then the OGL is super rad! If you want to play a game that isn't 3.x sometimes, the OGL was absolutely terrible and destroyed most experimentation and creativity in the hobby for awhile. Like, look at the biggest OGL fans and then ask yourself what games they play and count how many are not a variation of 3.x or terrible OSR game.
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MadScientistWorking posted:How do people even tried argue that its progressive for the 70's? In the grand scheme of fantasy its sounds like a horrendous jump back even for the time period. RPG.net nerds liked it and being at RPG.net makes them progressive, therefor
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Sep 11, 2014 21:14
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FMguru posted:i liked the books when i was in junior high, therefore they are high literature and anyone who says otherwise is a hater One person there heavily implies anyone who hates Xanth now and finds it troubling couldn't have enjoyed it as a kid, because to them it's literally impossible to ever have any amount of self examination.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:11
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A) +1 swords are the worst, and they're here to stay because it's ~*~traditional~*~ B) The thing with high level play in 3e - the thing with lots of problems in 3e - is that literally you do not have to playtest it to see it, you just have to actually examine the math with any sort of rigor at all. The problem isn't poor playtesting. The problem is desperately trying to think the game where all the mechanics come down to you doing equations doesn't have to involve math.
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Sep 16, 2014 19:53
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Tollymain posted:who runs the grogs.txt twitter? Some IRC goons.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:08
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I agree that they might literally not know how to make a new player friendly edition. 5e is created by and for AD&D fans - not Basic fans. Don't forget that Basic vs AD&D was the first "edition war" and plenty of AD&D fans are still sour about it. Even though Basic overwhelmingly outside AD&D, especially amongst new players. People keep talking about Mearls being constrained by grogs or consultants or whatever. No, he wasn't. This is 100% the game he wanted to make. It isn't built for new players because Mearls wants to remake AD&D first and foremost. And hey, if AD&D was good enough for him, surely it's good enough for everyone else?
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I had to check and of course ENWorld immediately begins complaining not only that he unfairly besmirched the fair name of 5e and that Mearls was clearly lying about 4e selling well, but that simultaniously of course the "teacher/mentor" (as they liked to use) model was the best because otherwise you'd be dumbing down the hobby or trying to cater to outside the true fanbase.
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Gravy Train Robber posted:Relevant to the discussion about how people are introduced to D&D- Reminder, this is explicitly the FEEL OF THE GAME that 5e is trying to gain back.
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Sep 19, 2014 06:00
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MalcolmSheppard posted:To credit TSR, the company actually hired professionals in child development and psychology to make D&D more accessible. The Holmes version of D&D was the first step on the road to the red box. I don't know what WotC has done by comparison, but I don't think any professionals consulted would say "release three enormous books months apart and a box set that is redundant once you buy the books." It continues to amaze me that we won't be seeing the DMG for a few more months. Someone in WotC's D&D branch hosed up hard.
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Sep 19, 2014 21:57
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The fact is, most of the fun grog like DM MASK is long done with little new to replace it.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:53
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If you are so loving paranoid of the "FURRIES" freak out that's like a decade old now that you can't play what is basically "Disney Animation the Game" then you have far bigger problems then Ironclaw. Like if you are sincerely terrified that playing as any sort of animal character will lead you down a dark path into whatever it is you are imagining then you need to find either a professional or Jesus.
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Traveller posted:Is Jesus a cat or a dog person? Horrifying lamb/lion hybrid
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