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WHAT?!?!? Do you not live on planet Earth? Do you not watch the news? What makes you think for even a moment that the cultures would homogenize? This doesn't even seem to happen here in reality even when the only race is the human race. You think it would get better if it was a bunch of...

Playing "themselves" vs playing "someone else" in a TTRPG has nothing to do with narrative depth. How the player portrays their character in regards to what happens in the narrative is what determines narrative depth. I have no problem with players playing "themselves" in a game as it usually...

I believe I have seen something like that offered up as an alternative method somewhere at sometime in some version of D&D. Hope I narrowed it down!

Yes.

This would be other. Please vote accordingly as I am curious to know where the 5e crowd sits. EDIT: My bad! You voted but I didn't so I couldn't see it! Hahaha, I'm dumb!

I changed the poll so you can vote for multiples! Please vote accordingly, even if you choose all of them. I am just curious.

This is for people who are using the 5e version of D&D. Please don't vote for what you use if you use a different version of D&D. I am just curious where the 5e crowd sits on this issue. Thank you for your consideration and vote (or no vote)!

This ties in directly to my original post about how players don't really choose non-human characters for the RP, they choose them for mechanical bonuses. IMHO, the best RP always involves human PCs as depth of character must come through action within the narrative. Players of non-human PCs...

How so? Again, how so? Both are asking to include something the GM doesn't want to work with. But what if the GM is aiming for a specific campaign premise, and that premise excludes Cat People?

They should have called it Knight Really Bad Wrestling Match!

I'm not sure how it works in real life cause I just watch peeps fight on TV's Knight Fight or in YouTube videos of melee combat. In Mythras the Combat Action Ward Location is considered a Free Action within the Combat Round timeframe of 5 seconds.

Oh I'm full on improv only players drive the narrative kinda GM. I don't even restrict the players to story arcs that last X number of sessions.

As I said, I just want to bash stuff with my sword! Story focus and background mumbo jumbo and all that doesn't matter to me if all I want to do is bash stuff with my sword.

Yay!

Yes!

TSR!

Is "Background" something I can pick off a list with no real thought other than whatever mechanical bonuses it provides? If yes, then I would just choose whatever mechanical bonus I want! Also, just about every TTRPG I have encountered does a much better job of mechanical reinforcement for a...

I think for more traditional (or old) GMs it's hard to relinquish that much narrative control. The last bit of conversation on this thread makes me sad that games like Burning Wheel aren't way more popular. Many games other than D&D do a much better job allowing for players to have narrative...

Sorry to say, but your idea of what the game should be all about is by no means the end all. Now that is OneTrueWayism at its best!

But what if I don't want to create a history for my PC? What if I don't want to come up with a story about a pumpkin something or other? What happens if I have zero interest in creating setting details? What happens if all I want to do is bash stuff with a sword?