Unpopular opinions go here

[CleverNickName]

Forcing the murder simulator into portraying sparkly friendship adventures is at the very least really inefficient, and generally displays a lack of willingness to try other games.

I'm not gonna tell anyone else how to run their games. But I think 5E D&D is a very terrible "murder simulator," and its critics are usually the ones that are trying to compel others to try other games.

 

[Aldarc]

I'm not gonna tell anyone else how to run their games. But I think 5E D&D is a very terrible "murder simulator," and its critics are usually the ones that are trying to compel others to try other games.

To be fair, while I think that D&D 5e is mostly oriented arounds combat in terms of its rules, I don't think that it's a murder simulator. I do want people to try other games but usually not on that basis or for that reason.

 

[Reynard]

Tentacled horrors are the least frightening and disturbing things about Lovecraftian horror and it is only due to banal lack of imagination that those elements are so commonly highlighted in TTRPGs.

 

[Thomas Shey]

People don’t seem to get that this is an “unpopular opinion” thread, and then get angry and offended when people share their unpopular opinion.

But I digress, you sound like a child when you call a book a “dead tree edition.” It’s a book. You aren’t being cool. You aren’t being funny. Irony left you behind a long time ago. This is my unpopular opinion, and I’m sticking to it.

Eh. The problem is, "book" is used too generally to useful without a qualifier at least You can get buy with "physical book", but the fact I'm reading Kindle versions doesn't make the stuff I've been reading less "books". Book by itself just doesn't tell you enough.

 

[overgeeked]

I'm not gonna tell anyone else how to run their games. But I think 5E D&D is a very terrible "murder simulator," and its critics are usually the ones that are trying to compel others to try other games.

Yes, it's bad at combat, but it's also primarily focused on combat, so...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Forcing the murder simulator into portraying sparkly friendship adventures is at the very least really inefficient, and generally displays a lack of willingness to try other games.

Not using the murder part of the engine leaves a whole lot of other stuff.

And yes, there certainly are probably games that do it better, but that doesn't make it not something that D&D can do. (Really unpopular opinion: There is probably nothing D&D does that another system doesn't already do better.)

 

[overgeeked]

Really unpopular opinion: There is probably nothing D&D does that another system doesn't already do better.

Absolutely true and certain to be unpopular.

 

[FrogReaver]

There is probably nothing D&D does that another system doesn't already do better.)

Besides lead the market

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Besides lead the market

I laughed, but I will reiterate what is an unpopular opinion here (although it shouldn't be).

Making something that is broadly popular is not just something that people should take for granted. When people say that other things "Do it better," they are usually referring to one or two discrete things that a system does better.

Doing a lot of things well (or fine) is itself a very good thing. I know I've talked about this repeatedly (see, e.g., the Cheesecake post), but one of the strengths of D&D is that it can appeal to a lot of different people who are playing for different reasons.

 

[jdrakeh]

As the creator of the Murder Simulator SRD, I would like to point out that there are much better games for that than D&D.