D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

Paul Farquhar · 2025-12-24T09:27:39+0000

jdrakeh said:
Your definition of "adversarial" is extremely narrow. From the Oxford Dictionary:

Adversarial: Involving or characterized by conflict or opposition.

An Adversarial game of D&D is a very specific thing, and if everyone is on board with it it’s a perfectly fine way to play.

A storytelling game is also a specific thing, which if everyone is on board with it is a perfectly fine way to play.

jdrakeh · 2025-12-24T09:34:53+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
An Adversarial game of D&D is a very specific thing, and if everyone is on board with it it’s a perfectly fine way to play.

Are you sure you're not RPG Pundit, because you're posting like RPG Pundit.

MichaelSomething · 2025-12-24T10:28:37+0000

Did I call it or what???

Remathilis · 2025-12-24T13:40:29+0000

MichaelSomething said:
Did I call it or what???

Or what

Umbran · 2025-12-24T13:43:05+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
There were people giving that advice, at least by the early 1980s.

Can you name any of them, or tell us where the average gamer was supposed to find that advice?

The 1980s, pre-internet, was not exactly a golden age for information discovery. If someone gave that information in a mimeographed fanzine, it got seen by like, three people.

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