Recent content by Clint_L

Again, that seems to be your experience, but it is not a universal truth. Case in point, D&D Club at my school is open to all, and I cannot deny kids the right to play unless they are breaking school rules. In my home game, I am the DM, but the story is built in cooperation with the players...

For my fantsy RPGs I strongly prefer high fantasy, and my least favourite is grimdark. I find it depressing. And I also hate psionics. So...not for me.

I think a lot of these simulationist rules are vestigial, but they are easy enough to ignore, and it’s okay to have them around for players who like a more hardcore game. More of them could be made optional so as not to confuse newer players.

Speak for your own D&D social contract. We see it as a cooperative game, not a dictatorship. We did recently mutually agree that a player was not a good fit, and then I had a conversation with him. He turned out to agree. We’re still close. One of my (many) problems with alignment is that it...

How can a player interpret THEIR character anything but correctly?

Yet, rather oddly, Mercer runs Daggerheart in Age of Umbra almost exactly the same way that he runs D&D and other games, even at times "fixing" player descriptions of their monster kills. The only instance I can recall of players being handed the narrative reains was briefly in episode 7 (I...

I agree. I also suggested Fiasco in my response, as it is great for one-shots and tends to have such gonzo plots that players don't feel a lot of pressure to contribute in a certain style. I've played with all sorts of different players, most of whom never GM, and they have all loved it (but I...

To me, this seems like a disengenuous or unkind response. Presumably, you've chosen to GM and know what goes with it. Many players do NOT want to GM, and people in general can be put off by being put under unexpected pressure.

I note that in Age of Umbra, the one time Mercer really uses this technique (episode 7, I believe, when they are exploring the house), the players, experienced as they are, don't do anything consequential with it.

I make the opportunities available for players. Some run with it, most do not, and some are clearly nonplussed and dislike the experience intensely, specifically because they feel put on the spot. Oh, and a few of the players who run with it will become disruptive and start competing. So you...

I don't recall anyone ever interpreting it that way at the time, though sometimes players made characters with the intention of eventually being a bard, and occasionally they even followed through. Certainly no one was ever bothered if a player made a fighter intending to be a bard, and then...

I love that online play is an option when necessary, but agree that in-person play should be the priority. I think that having people physically present together is (mostly) better for people, and better for gaming specifically. I was surprised by how little integration there was between the...

Am I the only person who thinks these are more complicated than a simple character sheet?

I'm a DM 99% of the time but would love to be a player more often.

I found myself hunting around so often that I finally did a filtered search just for humanoids on DDB, sorted by CR, and then made a spreadsheet of all of them sorted by explicit or implicit class.