Okay, prove it's infinite. Name me someone who has run an infinitely long game of D&D.
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overgeeked
B/X Known World
No. The rules of football are explicit on the win conditions of the game. There are none listed for the game of D&D. There are goals and missions and monsters for your character to complete or fight within the game. There are no win conditions for you the player to achieve.
overgeeked
B/X Known World
You're conflating two uses of the word infinite.
Infinite here means that there are no clear win conditions or end points to the game. It does not mean infinite in the sense of eternal.
But if you want the closest we have to an eternal game of D&D, here's this DM. He's been running one game of D&D as long as I've been playing D&D. That's impressive.
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If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Again, you're just mistaking the finite game for the infinite game.
No win conditions in football.
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overgeeked
B/X Known World
Note how "sport" is a category of activity rather than a specific game itself. D&D isn't a category of activity, it is a specific game itself.
Note how its equally true with an edit to football, given this attempted pedantry.
I'll post it yet again, just as a simple example, from the publishers of D&D.
No win conditions in D&D?
This game doesn't 'continue' - either players 'win' by 'defeating Strahd' or die trying ('lose').
Like the rest of the supposedly 'infinite' D&D littered with TPKs when the players died trying ('lost') instead of 'won'.
The adventurer's best hope of defeating Strahd is to learn his secrets. Guided by Mada Eva's card reading they must scour his domain for magic items that might weaken or slay him.
The adventure ends when either Strahd von Zarovich or the characters are defeated.
The adventure ends when either Strahd von Zarovich or the characters are defeated.
No win conditions in D&D?
This game doesn't 'continue' - either players 'win' by 'defeating Strahd' or die trying ('lose').
Like the rest of the supposedly 'infinite' D&D littered with TPKs when the players died trying ('lost') instead of 'won'.
It isn't that simple - D&D, with life-or-death stakes, task-focus and tactical orientation bring us to a naive conclusion that life, or success at some task, equals a win. But D&D is a game that's remained fairly close to its wargame roots, and we can look farther afield and find that the win condition is our choice, not defined by the game - Ten Candles is an example of this, in that the characters WILL DIE, and will not have any indication if anything the try to achieve before death will have an impact on the fictional world. It isn't a game about achievement, it is a game about what happens as you try.
hawkeyefan
Legend
Is everybody here still playing the original campaign they were in when they first picked up a d20?
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