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No, you are ignoring the actual story and characterising it as something else. and No in the actual story the player did not leave the game.

No it’s not. Though maybe you play differently, in all the TTRPG games I’ve played in having an unplanned for encounter along the way is something I signed up for.

The reason I say you are projecting is because what happened in the game I described was a two session scenario where the group had a pretty common in genre event (a space ship issue, leading to a crash landing leading to interacting with the environment on the planet) and your response was to...

No, you appear to be projecting. 3 of the 4 players engaged with the scenario as presented and they were the ones who decided to investigate what was going on and not just surrender to clearly shady people when the player who hadn’t been paying attention decided to do so. The others all warned...

Could be, I’ve found the biggest element to prevent engagement to be focus. The rest of the group is happily engaging with a scenario in front of them, working out plans, gathering Intel but one player hasn’t been paying attention. Something like an obvious fetch quest or fight is easy to work...

Heaven forbid you explore and engage in the scenario presented.

I had one of these with my game last night. Playing Traveller and the team had been hired to repair some robotic harvesters on a largely habitable agricultural planet. Their ship got sabotaged mid jump and they had crashed on the wrong side of the planet on a large island that wasn’t yet...

I don’t think it’s crpgs. I’ve hardly played any crpgs and I’ve had all those behaviours and read trpg adventures that rely upon all those design elements. But it’s a good reminder about lazy play or design.

What “I can’t love you thing” ?

Yep, she suggested the party be motivated by doing the right thing early in episode 1 and was rebuffed. Then I think the not knowing how to bless a house and towards the end of episode 2 she was unable to heal a villager because she had healed Grog and that seemed to trouble her. I got the...

Well I have watched the whole first season now and enjoyed it. I may even re watch it. I am not a critter but would be happy to see more of the story & would be happy if future D&D tv shows or movies were similar quality. There were bits that were obvious D&D like bigbys hand, counterspell...

That presenting a combat on a tv show should be different than in a tactical game to be entertaining?

It seems to me (personal observation not figures) that Mongoose Traveller, and Chaosium Runequest and Call of Cthulhu are all producing high quality material at a pretty frequent rate. Plus there are heaps of third party D&D publishers producing high quality material such as Kobold Press, MCDM...

I read lots of adventures and am inspired by them. I use published adventures and expand upon them. Part of it is my interpretation, my take on the villains motivations etc. Taking an idea and making it more to my taste etc. I alter almost everything but it’s hard to know how much % wise. I...

Just watched episode 4-6. Glad to see the shift in tone as they moved in with the story. Enjoyed it much more

When we are learning a new game system we will take a fair while figuring out how to create characters and so forth then we sometimes get the balance completely wrong leading to an out of nowhere TPK. Just had one recently where I as GM completely miscalculated the enemy and wiped out 3 PC’s in...

2, 3 & 5 are pretty close.

I watched the “What is planned for Pendragon 2022” YouTube but I couldn’t figure out how many books (or box sets) of 6e rules there would be before the GPC was reprinted and what they would each cover. Could you enlighten me? Is it on your website somewhere?

Well sure but because it’s a (+) thread posting an alternative view is discouraged and may awaken the mods so it’s difficult to judge. I enjoyed the article, I‘m not totally onboard with the current editions approach to this or other lore but I wasn’t totally onboard with any prior editions...

I watched with caution. The crit role group have done most stuff well but I was nervous give the history of d&d films. The story was good and most of the tone worked but the puerile sex jokes while they are ok when you are watching a group of friends play a game over snacks and dice were...