Vaalingrade
Legend
I know I joke about the 'too dumb to operate Rage' thing, but what age of kids are we saying 'remember page on book, add die number to stat' is too complicated for?
Depends on the child. But IMO...I know I joke about the 'too dumb to operate Rage' thing, but what age of kids are we saying 'remember page on book, add die number to stat' is too complicated for?
This seem to suggest that there is some societal issue with RTFM than a specific D&D thing.From years of running different high school D&D clubs, which often attract the two extremes of student population: honors and special education students, most of them have a very difficult time applying the ruleset as written. I would say out of the 150 students I've seen try to learn the game, 25% at tops knew and understood the rules. The rest were just guided.
Most would eventually understand the attack roll, modifiers, etc. But things like I attack, therefore, the target needs to make a save, often went over their heads or they could never remember. More specific things, such as class features, were almost always explained by the 25% that knew the rules. And it often was explained every session.
One thing to note, only about 10% of the students ever read the books. The others just used Beyond for character creation. So, asking them to understand the nuances of rage without having the information of gameplay from the book to attach it to, makes it really difficult to learn it.
I am just stating what I see. Reading the rulebook might be outdated to many students. Not when it can be explained by watching videos or the person sitting next to you. (Or just having the computer do it.)This seem to suggest that there is some societal issue with RTFM than a specific D&D thing.
It is an interesting data point and one too small to conjecture too much on but when you put it like that WoTC's pivot to digital may not be 4D chess to kill the third party market but a necessity to extend the life of the game.I am just stating what I see. Reading the rulebook might be outdated to many students. Not when it can be explained by watching videos or the person sitting next to you. (Or just having the computer do it.)
But I do find it interesting that the one thing that used to coalesce the community when we were kids (reading all the books and memorizing them) is now not even done. It shows you the evolution of the game in some odd way.
Do you own the game? You seem really caught up on optional boobs and a crude joke here and there, when that is hardly representative of the entire story.Let’s be clear, kids have been playing D&D since it came out 50 years ago. It’s not exclusively an adults game. If you disagree I’ll refer you to Stranger Things.
Trying to claim otherwise is gatekeeping.
It definitely can’t be used to justify some pretty dubious stuff in the computer game on the basis that dnd is ‘for adults.’ My objection isn’t just that it’s too adult either. It’s that it’s purile frat boy humour and we should be able to do better.
I most certainly do own it. Therefore am entitled to an opinion.Do you own the game? You seem really caught up on optional boobs and a crude joke here and there, when that is hardly representative of the entire story.