Recent content by Umbran

Spotlight hogging is a general issue, not narrative game specific. If you have players who don't respect the other players, that's going to be a problem whatever kind of game you are playing.

Sure. That's fine. You get to play as you want.

Not playing anything right now - my life doesn't have a lot of time in it for me to separate myself with a videogame. However, my wife is going away for a weekend soon, and I may dig myself into Diablo 4 or something while she's gone.

If a player comes to me, and says, "Look, I've got this nemesis, and I think it would be really cool if we have a confrontation and plummet from the top of Reichenbach Falls...," far be it from me to demand that can only happen by the roll of the dice. Just as an author may occasionally...

Yep. But, entering a discussion to determine right from wrong probably isn't going to gain folks much anyway. Sure. Or, they are mistaking "right/wrong" with personal preferences. They'll probably get more from figuring out what each person means than knowing they were "right", hey what?

Great questions! I think we spin waaaaay to much over the distinctions here, like between, "...is a story," and, "...is a story generator" and other variations on the theme, and trying to impose them on one another, or feeling they are imposed upon us by others. Especially when we consider...

I agree. Negative stimuli are not nearly so good a teacher as people seem to think.

PCs met, fought vampiric ghoul.

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As a thread, this is fine. As a (+) thread, this doesn't seem to have have a core premise that one could be for or against that moderators can judge is not being respected.

Mod note: This is a (+) thread. If you are not in board with the basic premise, then please hold your commentary for an apppropriate discussion.

"That's your get-rich-quick scheme, Frank? Bust up some valuable fossils and make dice out of them?" The problem with this notion is that lower-quality Tyrannosaur fossils aren't actually all that valuable. Like, you can buy something big enough to make a die out of for $50 - $100 or so. It...

There's other information to be gained form the question I asked, that this doesn't get us. What is the intended purpose of calling it "D&D"? Why do you want to call it that? I can imagine a world in which you ask for an apple, and you might get handed a citrus fruit, but I'm not sure that...

Time for the Game of Theseus argument?

So, you can get a perfectly functional role playing game on the d20 framework, without ability scores. I play other games that don't have ability scores. To answer whether it would be "D&D" if you did that... why would you want to call it that? What's the purpose in attaching that name to...