Recent content by Maxperson

Nobody has tried to tell you that you are not saying what you are saying. If that's what you are getting, you are misunderstanding something somewhere.

I've already given an example of multiple cooks cooking a meal. Hell, go to any nice restaurant and multiple chefs are cooking your meal. Cooking is not a solo job. Ahh, earth magic.

And D&D dictates dice, rulebooks, etc. That doesn't make getting them out adventure prep. You're conflating things. Ok. Not in the context of RPG play.

Not everything that happens before a game and is related to it is actual game prep. Setting up a soccer field for play is akin to the DM pulling out the books, dice, providing a table to play on, etc. That's not the same prepping the adventure via the RPG rules, which is what I'm talking...

Usually by blaming Col. Hogan. Schultz of course saw nothing.

Rule are for providing structure and fairness to an activity. Fun is a byproduct of that fairness and structure, which is what keeps us coming back to that activity. Without the fairness and structure of rules, you generally end up with... Cops and Robbers Kid 1: "I got the handcuffs on you...

Except it won't be shopping. And not because we can't have nice metaphors. Rather it's because group play consists of taking the ingredients(prep) I add to the mix(dungeon layout, monsters, NPCs, treasure, etc.) and the ingredients the players add(PCs), and then together making something great...

The metaphor is about where the activity lies, yes. The point of cooking(as a metaphor) is for everyone at the table to enjoy adding to the food being prepared. Cooking so that at the end they hopefully have a great meal(adventure conclusion) that was jointly prepared by everyone involved. My...

Not necessarily. You could be railroading the players, in which case eating is when they get involved. All they can do is consume what you are forcing down their throats and nothing is truly being played. The rest of the time the DM mixes a bunch of ingredients and then towards the end of that...

If you think I'm talking about improv, you very much do not understand. A meal is the finished product. Game play is very much not a finished product by any stretch of the imagination. Game play is not the equivalent of a meal. Game play is cooking. It's all the ingredients, which includes...

If you think it's silly, then I think you don't really understand what I'm saying.

Spiking my drink with cyanide is going to be quite a bit worse than spiking it with more vodka. You aren't generally trying to kill something when you give it a glass of wine. Alcohol technically being a poison doesn't make any of the others okay. I'd guess the overwhelming number of people on...

Play = cooking, not eating. The finished dish is the story that everyone has experienced after the end of the session.

I mean, they're barbarians. You never want to make one unnecessarily mad. They rage often enough as is. :p

The barbarian is sliding into undeath because of his despair. Not all villains are villainous immediately. Poison users have traditionally been evil/bad guys in D&D. The warlock I agree with you on. The patrons aren't nice, but that doesn't translate into the warlock being a villain. I also...