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Yes! This is good. This mirrors my thinking, as well. Telling stories or running games which are full of mundane guys with swords is fine. I like low fantasy, too. I like playing in those sorts of campaigns, sometimes, too. But how do you "realistically" explain those mundane guys with...

Well, sure. You have room for "episodes" in your sandbox, because you're running one of those inferior sandboxes with only one PC party. If you had multiple PC groups, like any halfway decent sandbox has, then you'd have to push those pesky "episodes" out of the way.

Yeah, I can see this. I suppose the abilities of the purely "Martial" characters do seem somewhat more mystical or magical than before. I, personally, like that. But I can see how a lot of people wouldn't.

This whole experience points thing slightly (okay, a lot) confuses me. What does "Your Experience Points Power is 1 Points" mean, exactly?

Wow. This game is totally awesome! Great thread, man. You sound like a fantastic DM. You should record an actual play podcast of this....

It's possibly possible, sure, but probably not. It's possible, though, that it's certainly possible to be almost sure, but some or all of that just might be wrong. If wrongness exists.

What if it's not being disjointed from mechanics, though? I mean, what if it's actually intended that a Warlord shouting at you is supposed to be reattaching your hacked off arm or whatever? I mean, it might sound unrealistic to us, but I can imagine a bunch of Troll gamers in Troll World...

The thought of this made me laugh. "Damn and blast it, Regdar! I swear by Moradin's beard, if you trip me with that STUPID glaive while I'm trying to smash kobolds ONE more time, I'm never healing you again! And you can FORGET about me sharing my 'special holy water' with you any more, too!"

Ah, but what about the belief that objective reality doesn't exist, but that knowing even that, objectively, isn't possible? Speaking for my own subjective view of reality, all reality is subjective, therefore there really isn't any reality at all. But since that's my subjective idea, it could...

I have no idea how you could design a game in which "smart play" never conflicted with any player's idea of "satisfying play". I agree that doing so would be GREAT game design, but I don't see how it could be done, so I think it's a bit unfair to call a game which doesn't achieve this "bad game...

What about someone who believes, possibly, that everything, or some things, might possibly be subjective, unless those things aren't subjective, but that nothing really seems to be objective as far as he can tell thus far, but any given thing just might be objective after all. But he's not sold...

Oh. Thanks for clarifying!

Agreed!

Yeah, I see that I didn't communicate well. I didn't mean that I wouldn't allow the players to retire/abandon their character and bring in a different one, if that's what they wanted. And of course I'd work with them on the narrative manner in which their character left the story, so yeah, if...

Could you explain what this means, please? I'm seriously asking, not being smarmy.

While I appreciate the attempt to make a poll based on the poll I originally wanted (and tried, and failed) to make, this poll really doesn't ask the essential question which I was trying to ask, at all. And in response to some things said in the other thread, the one I created where I tried to...

This is exactly how I feel. $

I still haven't decided, but I can answer one thing... I absolutely hate the "new character" thing in any kind of ongoing campaign. My campaigns are like a continuous story, and once the PCs enter the story, they ARE the protagonists, and the campaign is ABOUT those specific characters from...

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Heh. Exactly. $