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There are definite pros and cons. MCU doesn't meander around and the comics are a contradictory mess. But Mandarin was a perfect example of Hollywood minded people saying "all of these good and extremely important and fun details about the character are going out the window". It's using...

If that's the case then clearly we had a big text issue based miscommunication, as that wasn't at all my intended tone. And of course I failed to make clear what my question meant and why exactly I asked it that way. When you described PVP as a Jaguar car, it had me thinking of all of the...

Oh it wasn't Ben's fault. They just completely threw what seemed like 100% of the details about Mandarin out the window. He's not a super genius of biological science who creates villains. That's the perfect foil for Iron Man, not whatever the heck that was. I can forgive them not making him...

Yeah don't remind me... Iron Man 3 completely ruined Mandarin.

... It's that difficult? How immature is the average player you guys play with?

So.... if they don't publish anything real or worth buying... how do they make money?

I mean, whatever these companies morph into at the end of the day, D&D was something they bought in the first place. WOTC didn't develop it. Maybe they'll make more good D&D product? Maybe they won't? Maybe WOTC changes Hasbro? But D&D, it's become a cultural germ. It belongs to the people at...

It's funny how the "there is trees" part stands out to you but for me the worst error was in the first sentence, failing to clarify between a noun and an adjective and writing "Morris is" instead of "Morris is a". For me, when there's a clear grammatical problem like that which changes the...

Well you're not exactly wrong, but then again some terribly mediocre and lazy writing doesn't rank all that high on the list of dumb things NTSR has done.

That's kind of the main impression I get every time I read anything NuTSR. It's like: do you English, bro? Lol should it even be possible to call yourself a publisher if you can't put together a paragraph that makes sense? It took me a minute just to parse through the bad writing there.

So I got through the initial synopsis and into some of the NPCs but man is there plenty of material and I'll have to pick it up again tomorrow before I can give it a fair shake, lol. Very much my vibe, though, and I could easily think of like a dozen PCs.

Without a doubt, probably most of us here have made our own settings for a TTRPG; but which one is your baby? The one you put the most effort and love into. That one setting your friends might have to shut you up, about, because it's uber fun to think about and play in. For me there's no doubt...

Then that means you're both right? 🙂

In the interest of being candid: I have two players who are plotting against each other and they've rolled initiative a couple of times. They're married so there's always that to consider 😄 It's been fun we've mixed all kinds of insight and deception checks into it.

Can you think of any good examples of this happening? Evil settings aren't exactly common I would presume. This is interesting to me because I've never been overly worried about my ideas bleeding a little into the campaign. It's merely part of the flavor, and I figure it helps make it my own...

Foreword: this is not intended to start any extended discussion about comparing and debating beliefs. The focus is more narrow than that and if things get heated, or the premise isn't appropriate for this forum, please feel free to remove the thread, mods. How much have your games resembled the...

So is it a totally foreign idea to you that for some players it doesn't compromise fun time at all and is literally in no way "interpersonal conflict" (this is a friendly and honest, not rhetorical, question)? It's a game. We're making cooperative fiction.

Is it? Or is it pretty easy to communicate with your friends and ask what their playing experience is like? It doesn't matter what we say or think here, what the PHB says, at the end of the day we're accountable to our players. Only we know our game and our players.

You're digging into a problem right under the surface of what you're talking about. Hollywood, Hasbro, Disney, etc. all of the big companies that sell entertainment media suffer from the same problem: formula-ism. If something works, works multiple times, looks like it might work every time...

Heh, Frank Castle's pithy response there made me laugh.