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

[Maxperson]

Cue something bad being said about me.

You look like a mouse in a space suit.

 

[dragoner]

You look like a mouse in a space suit.

Truth! I am the space mouse.

 

[trappedslider]

It's hard to give the benefit of a doubt when you ask for an explanation and none is forthcoming

 

[dragoner]

TTRPGs General should be about non-D&D, now that is my hot-take for the day.

 

[Thomas Shey]

TTRPGs General should be about non-D&D, now that is my hot-take for the day.

I notice I have to remind people a discussion is taking place there fairly frequently when they'll automatically make D&D-adjacent assumptions in their comments.

 

[dragoner]

I notice I have to remind people a discussion is taking place there fairly frequently when they'll automatically make D&D-adjacent assumptions in their comments.

Sometimes I look into threads, and it is all D&D, and I feel like saying, try another game, then I think, what is the point? They will ignore the comment and continue arguing D&D.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Sometimes I look into threads, and it is all D&D, and I feel like saying, try another game, then I think, what is the point? They will ignore the comment and continue arguing D&D.

Well, there's two different kind of discussions that can go on here.

1. Discussions about things regarding the RPG hobby as a whole. Telling people in those that things other than D&D exist is probably necessary, but not always useful; in that context D&D is going to weigh in, and if that's the game they only play in, telling them to try something else is not going to get any sort of positive reaction most likely, and from a certain perspective, its understandable.

2. Discussions about particular problems or design options. Nothing in that says D&D should be the standard to go by, even if it is the 800 lb gorilla, and people who insist it should need to get over it; its not a question of popularity, its a question of addressing the issue.

 

[dragoner]

Well, there's two different kind of discussions that can go on here.

1. Discussions about things regarding the RPG hobby as a whole. Telling people in those that things other than D&D exist is probably necessary, but not always useful; in that context D&D is going to weigh in, and if that's the game they only play in, telling them to try something else is not going to get any sort of positive reaction most likely, and from a certain perspective, its understandable.

2. Discussions about particular problems or design options. Nothing in that says D&D should be the standard to go by, even if it is the 800 lb gorilla, and people who insist it should need to get over it; its not a question of popularity, its a question of addressing the issue.

If someone likes D&D, I'm fine with that, I support them 100%. Though if they are complaining about D&D, then the answer seems obvious, play something else. There is the third way, bringing arguments about D&D down out of the D&D sections, into the TTRPG's General, and that makes it all D&D, all the time.

 

[Thomas Shey]

If someone likes D&D, I'm fine with that, I support them 100%. Though if they are complaining about D&D, then the answer seems obvious, play something else. There is the third way, bringing arguments about D&D down out of the D&D sections, into the TTRPG's General, and that makes it all D&D, all the time.

I guess it can bring discussion of solutions other games have made to the problem and offering it up to the D&D user. Sometimes that's useless (because the structure of D&D makes it a nonstarter) but sometimes its at least theoretically useful if people aren't allergic to house rules (or stuck dealing with GMs who are allergic to them).

 

[dragoner]

I guess it can bring discussion of solutions other games have made to the problem and offering it up to the D&D user. Sometimes that's useless (because the structure of D&D makes it a nonstarter) but sometimes its at least theoretically useful if people aren't allergic to house rules (or stuck dealing with GMs who are allergic to them).

True, in theory, yes, though when it becomes multiple posters arguing about D&D, I don't know, feels kind of useless.