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WotC: "Why We Aren’t Funny"
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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7679365" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Where I think Decker & Noonan diverge from what I would consider a great experience is when they point this out:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>....so in their imaginations circa 2005, there would be possible players who would be upset about the table degenerating into howls of laughter. This is basically why they weren't funny.</p><p></p><p>I've never met such a player. I've never met anyone so invested in their own personal encounter/character arc that they couldn't laugh about a falling golem for a few minutes. I'll have to take their word that such a player exists. I could see it in the realm of plausible. </p><p></p><p>Such a player, however, doesn't seem to be on board with the basic play agenda that I have when I play D&D - to have fun playing make-believe with other people. D&D is easy, social fun. I am not here to prove that my character build is the uberest by taking down your enemy in an empty 20-by-20 battlefield. I am not here to listen quietly to everyone's detailed backstory. Degenerating into laughter for 5 minutes sounds like a <em>great</em> use of game-time to me. If that doesn't sound like a great time to you, I don't think we're using D&D for the same purposes. And honestly, I think you could be doing other things that realize your goals much better than D&D ever will - D&D cannot provide a balanced challenge like a competitive sport. D&D cannot entertain a broad audience like a written novel. Use the media for what it's best at. A bunch of dorks in a room pretending to be magical elves is a good environment for laughter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7679365, member: 2067"] Where I think Decker & Noonan diverge from what I would consider a great experience is when they point this out: ....so in their imaginations circa 2005, there would be possible players who would be upset about the table degenerating into howls of laughter. This is basically why they weren't funny. I've never met such a player. I've never met anyone so invested in their own personal encounter/character arc that they couldn't laugh about a falling golem for a few minutes. I'll have to take their word that such a player exists. I could see it in the realm of plausible. Such a player, however, doesn't seem to be on board with the basic play agenda that I have when I play D&D - to have fun playing make-believe with other people. D&D is easy, social fun. I am not here to prove that my character build is the uberest by taking down your enemy in an empty 20-by-20 battlefield. I am not here to listen quietly to everyone's detailed backstory. Degenerating into laughter for 5 minutes sounds like a [I]great[/I] use of game-time to me. If that doesn't sound like a great time to you, I don't think we're using D&D for the same purposes. And honestly, I think you could be doing other things that realize your goals much better than D&D ever will - D&D cannot provide a balanced challenge like a competitive sport. D&D cannot entertain a broad audience like a written novel. Use the media for what it's best at. A bunch of dorks in a room pretending to be magical elves is a good environment for laughter. [/QUOTE]
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