Google says they make holes in teeth.My post was referencing something that has gone viral in the past couple weeks. I fear that explaining the joke would get some red script from the moderators about decency, so you'll have to google it yourself
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Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
not sure if you're being obtuse, but assuming you're playing it straight, google Hawk Thuah... It's not about the skater Tony Hawk...Google says they make holes in teeth.
deadman1204
Explorer
The dark side of dnd. Players are literally the most evil people on the planet. We go around and murder everything just to take its stuff. Murder century old dragons for the loot, and then enslave their children as pets and mounts. Its only evil if we do this to people we like, but since we don't like those races (yet we are not racist) its not only ok, its virtuous...
The most lawful good player is truely a dark terror on the world.
At least some people don't play that way. Of course you can always massage just about any scenario into "it's evil", but I think the motivation of "storm the castle to get the fat lootz" is very old school.
deadman1204
Explorer
We like to dress it up and pretend to be social justice warriors, but at the end of the day, advancing your character is about getting the loots - aka new and better magic items and exp. You get experience and level via killing things.At least some people don't play that way. Of course you can always massage just about any scenario into "it's evil", but I think the motivation of "storm the castle to get the fat lootz" is very old school.
The entire game system is desiged around combat, with skill stuff a throwaway second place where any problem can be solved with a single dice roll.
The motivations and reasons matter. People are messy and complex, things are rarely black and white. But I haven't played in or run a murder hobo game for a very long time.
Vaalingrade
Legend
Welp, 'social justice warrior' has finally lost the last clinging scrap of meaning left to its all too long history of terrible use cases.
I didn't expect it to end in 'doesn't use XP', but here we are.
CreamCloud0
Hero
i don't think it even needs to go so far as to be murderhoboing that is happening, but can you really deny the vast majority of character progression for most people's games is typically based in a cycle of combat and loot?
jmartkdr2
Hero
I think there's a pretty significant difference between "we go fight evil, and occasionally get paid / rewarded / training / notice our skills increasing" and "lets go kill some bandits so we can practice fighting and take their stuff."
Even if the mechanics aren't really any different, it's a wildly different narrative.
CreamCloud0
Hero
my point was the opposite, that regardless of the narrative it takes the majority of progression in games is usually tied to some form of combat and loot, be that loot be aquired in a dungeon, bought in a store or given as reward.
i don't deny that some players still level via RP and social encounters but i suspect it is a far far smaller fraction in comparison.
