The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Trust me, one can simultaneously see the appeal, and get the sense the game is distinctly someone else's game.

Fair enough. I will join a funnel anytime. Or even a module. Though, I will admit any GM asking if I want to play in a level 1-20 DCC campaign isnt likely to recruit me.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Fair enough. I will join a funnel anytime. Or even a module. Though, I will admit any GM asking if I want to play in a level 1-20 DCC campaign isnt likely to recruit me.

Yeah as a long term campaign game it doesn't quite work. There is just too much stuff that is too casually world changing.

 

[prabe]

So, most people who use a cookbook don't read it cover-to-cover. They skim it looking for the recipe they want.

 

[payn]

So, most people who use a cookbook don't read it cover-to-cover. They skim it looking for the recipe they want.

Dont they expect detailed chapters on how to cook? Chapter on whisking, and operating an oven, and blending, and chopping, etc...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

So, most people who use a cookbook don't read it cover-to-cover. They skim it looking for the recipe they want.

I know just the recipe.

 

[Cadence]

So, most people who use a cookbook don't read it cover-to-cover. They skim it looking for the recipe they want.

I will note that the Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery set and the America's Test Kitchen cookbooks as some that have a lot of useful other stuff that's fun to look up too, and they contain (maybe not chapters) but things about...

Dont they expect detailed chapters on how to cook? Chapter on whisking, and operating an oven, and blending, and chopping, etc...

The former also has history and the later what kind of kitchen gadgets are useful or not.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I like to introduce my DMing style to new players by waiting until there's a rules question. I answer off the cuff, and for the first question answer it wrong. Someone always (always) corrects me, at which point I hold up the Player's Handbook and say, "I haven't read this thing. Why are you reading it? Let's play to find out what happens!"

 

[prabe]

Dont they expect detailed chapters on how to cook? Chapter on whisking, and operating an oven, and blending, and chopping, etc...

As Cadence said, there are cookbooks that have extensive chapters on techniques and methods. I have (or have at least seen) one all about knife techniques. So ... some cookbooks can serve as the sort of reference book you seem to be ... mocking (though I presume gently).

 

[CleverNickName]

"Look, I'm really committed to this idea of nobody reading the Dungeon Master's Guide, okay? I've prepared dozens of farfetched scenarios and exaggerated reactions, and I'm not afraid to use them. Just let me live my fantasy!"

 

[RealAlHazred]

Look for my new thread coming soon to a forum near you, "[WIR] Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961), by Julia Child"!