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A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.

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TalenLee
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'D&D players don't understand enough of the rules' is a conversation that makes me mad and want to argue with people I otherwise like

'why aren't they playing another game if they're barely playing D&D?' because D&D is working for them and part of how that works is the way the system outsources components to other people.

TalenLee
@TalenLee

it's amazing hearing critiicsms that just occasionally veer into the absolutely unnatural, like 'Oh, the thing I hate about D&D fans the most is the way they're all sexually attracted to the Bunyip,'

TalenLee
@TalenLee

"And then, when I convince someone they shouldn't play D&D, when they ask me, 'what SHOULD I play then,' I'm just struck by how stupid a question that is!"

jesus christ, try to sound less like an arsehole

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binary
@binary

Yeah like. If they're like barely playing D&D already and the system more or less facilitates that then why would they want to start playing another game that makes them do more work?

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Fru-Fru-Brigade
@Fru-Fru-Brigade

I… swear you’re from another planet than this doll or Olwen. This post is nearly unintelligible. It’s not “facilitating it” by not being involved in that play. By that standard, Doom “facilitates” watching the demo and tapping the screen like a cat whenever something interesting moves.

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@warc

everyone I've ever known to have fun playing ANY TTRPG system, bare ass D&D included, knows that the rules are there to fill in and provide bounds when the party's imagination and improvisation ends. The books are context and structure to supplement your roleplay, and treating them as laws of a sport with a Right Way To Play is maximum dork shit.

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iamarat
@iamarat

I'm actually trying to remember the last time I played completely unmodified D&D. I think it was running X2 Castle Amber using the 1983 edition.

I mean, I was running it in ... 2011, I think? ... but that's still a whole lot of years ago.

(That said, there used to be tournaments, and I can sticking to exactly rules-as-written then. But that's a special situation, and there were never really "professional D&D players." It was more like they ran demonstration games with prizes.)

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