Recent content by Hussar

Hang on though. You have repeatedly insisted that there is zero value in learning anything from other systems. After all, you are the best driver of your car and learning to drive a truck would in no way improve your driving skills. You have repeatedly stated that you will not learn other...

Oh, well... sort of? She also had to learn dance in order to do performative calligraphy and learn choreography in order to form a troupe for performative calligraphy. And, I don't think you quite understand just how broad the art is if you think that it's all very similar. I'll be the first...

But, here's the thing. Without experiencing other systems, you could not have tried to improve your game by bringing in player facing techniques. That it didn't work with a particular group isn't all that relevant. The fact that you had an ability to do something that someone who refuses to...

Bailing hay is hard work. Digging ditches is hard work. Picking tobacco is (extremely) hard work. Running a marathon is hard. It's been a hard day's night. I should be sleeping like a log. Do I need more examples?

I mean, pithy aphorisms aside, this is just wrong. The idea that you can be the top of something by only doing that one thing and not learning how to do any related activity is just not true. I'm the best guitarist I can be because I do nothing but play Van Halen. Heck, do nothing but play...

And yet, Bruce Lee traveled for years studying other styles and incorporating elements from a broad selection of martial arts traditions. According to the folks here, he should never have studied anything other than one single tradition and he would be just as good. He learned nothing from...

But, if that were true, and there was nothing unique about what others had learned from other games, then why don't you understand and recognize how the dozen or so specific examples you asked for work? You asked for specific examples of how things learned in other systems could improve a DND...

Yes please. Can I have some more?

And yet, virtually every MMA fighter, and certainly the best ones, incorporate moves and ideas from a wide variety of different styles and traditions. Heck, Bruce Lee did EXACTLY that when he created Jeet Kun Do. It's not like he only practiced exactly one form of martial art and never...

The fact that you have no idea how any of these things work is precisely the problem. I have neither the time, patience or energy to yet again try to batter down the walls of your self-imposed ignorance of other systems only to have you endlessly challenge everything I say. It's simply not...

From Ironsworn, I have adapted the entire exploration system from Ironsworn into my D&D game in order to make exploration much more exciting and fun. And it has worked very well. My Out of the Abyss game would be far less enjoyable for the table if I ran it D&D RAW as it was written in the...

Y'know, I was all ready to let that go. I really was. Then you had to go and keep hammering the same point over and over and, well, sorry, I failed my Will save. 😕🐟

I was noodling over this thread and something occured to me. Imagine a thought experiment. You have two potential DM's that you are possibly going to play with and you have to choose one. Both have about 10 years of experience running games. DM 1 proudly proclaims that they have only ever...

I would say so, yes. If nothing else, watching other DM's helps to become a better DM yourself. Whether it's learning from the great stuff they do or the bad. DM's need to get out from behind their screens from time to time. Again, IMO and IME and all that.