Unpopular opinions go here

Celebrim · Jul 19, 2023

Gradine said:
Alright, here are my unpopular opinions...

4) The Star Wars Prequels excel at memes and absolutely nothing else. Yes, even Revenge of the Sith. I would rather re-watch Solo. Or Rise of Skywalker. Or hell, even just the first two acts of Rogue One.

5) By the by, the best Star Wars storytelling right now (I mean, outside of Andor, obvs) is happening in the Jedi games.

I feel like I need to explain to you the definition of unpopular.

8) Apocalypse World is one of the least well-made Powered by the Apocalypse games.

9) The Ranger has never had an identity outside of "is Strider/Aragorn" and every attempt to stray from that idea to form a more fleshed-out identity has failed miserably.

10) Combat is the best part of Dungeons & Dragons

11) Combat is the worst part of Dungeons & Dragons.

12) No I will not elaborate, I feel both statements are self-evident.

Yeah, so the word "unpopular" means "things that are seen unfavorably by the general public". It doesn't mean things that are obvious and are part of the general consensus.

13) Dungeon World got the balance between D&D and PbtA way off

Again, this is supposed to be unpopular opinions. DW is obviously just a fantasy heartbreaker that is so close to D&D as to practically be just someone's house rules for it.

14) D&D makes the best gateway RPG not because it's actually designed well for that purpose, but because it's the thing everyone has at least heard about and will bring them to the table to play until they either eventually grok the system or complain enough to let you pitch simpler, better games.

15) THAC0 and descending AC are both extremely counter-intuitive you absolute nerds and D&D is better off for moving to attack bonuses and ascending AC. Was it really that difficult? No, it wasn't that bad. Was it objectively worse than what we have now? Absolutely.

16) For a game all about combat D&D has never figured out a good way to properly use/scale HP. It's an absolutely mess; PCs either have too few or too many HPs, enemies always have too many HPs, there being absolutely no penalties losing any amount HP short of all of them, etc.

I mean really. Now that you know the definition of the word "unpopular" you should try again.

Gradine · Jul 19, 2023

I think my favorite part is how "combat is the best part of D&D" and "combat is the worst part of D&D" are both "things that are obvious and part of the general consensus" but then... where is the lie?

J.Quondam · Jul 19, 2023

Pedantic said:
At this point, I'll support anything that doesn't come in a pod.

...especially people.

deganawida · Jul 19, 2023

Game players and designers seem to confuse "rules" with "structure". All you need for good play is structure, not a ton of rules. Define the play area, let players go wild inside that. No need to adjudicate every decision.

nevin · Jul 19, 2023

Gradine · Jul 19, 2023

Fine, here's some more:

17) RPG campaigns are stories and stories need to have themes. If I'm taking the trouble of playing a character in a story I want it be about something

18) Say what you will about Rise of Skywalker, but the whole astral-projection lightsaber duel in the... I guess the first third act? or second second act?... anyway, is one of the coolest damn things I've ever seen in a Star War.

19) Character death almost always kills more dramatic tension than it causes. True in fiction and in TTRPGs.

20) Railroading gets a bad rap. Or I should say, people are way to quick to mislabel to the expectations of player buy-in as railroading.

21) The Wheel of Time show? Actually pretty good, for the most part.

payn · Jul 19, 2023

Posting unpopular opinions in lists, instead of one at a time, is disappointing.

Snarf Zagyg · Jul 19, 2023

You, the people in the audience, did not actually will the band to come back on to perform the encore with your enthusiasm.

They had the encore already planned as part of the show.

deganawida · Jul 19, 2023

Here's my most unpopular opinion:

Dungeons & Dragons should have ended with the bankruptcy of TSR. Was AD&D 2nd Edition the best D&D version? YMMV. However, every edition since then has either been retreading the same ground as covered previously, or was hated for deviating too much, without ever capturing the spirit of the TSR versions. The failure of 4e to really set a new baseline for D&D sealed the fate of D&D as a brand that can never again experience real evolution. They should have kept what TSR products there were in print as an evergreen product, and then made something new that met their design goals much better.

overgeeked · Jul 19, 2023

The metric system is infinitely superior to the imperial system.

Unpopular opinions go here

Celebrim

Legend

Gradine

The Elephant in the Room (she/her)

J.Quondam

CR 1/8

deganawida

Legend

nevin

Hero

Gradine

The Elephant in the Room (she/her)

payn

He'll flip ya...Flip ya for real...

Snarf Zagyg

Notorious Liquefactionist

deganawida

Legend

overgeeked

B/X Known World

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