D&D General A History of Violence: Killing in D&D

[MGibster]

Simultaneous post with moderator warning. Deleting post.

 

[cranberry]

D&D is a war game at it's core.

I suspect it wouldn't be as popular if it wasn't.

 

[Reynard]

D&D is a war game at it's core.

I suspect it wouldn't be as popular if it wasn't.

I don't think it is, or even was for very long. At its core, D&D is an adventure game.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Replace "bandits, goblins, and orcs" with "street gangs, drug cartels, and petty criminals" and "PCs" with "law enforcement agency" and try to use that same justification. Bonus if you can justify civil forfeiture alongside it.

Good thing we're talking about an imaginary world then, where we're all acting like fictional characters and no one is actually getting hurt.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't think it is, or even was for very long. At its core, D&D is an adventure game.

Then what's with the huge focus on combat? One of the core books is called the Monster Manual, and there's very little in it that talks about making friends.

 

[Guest 85555]

Sometimes an orc is just an orc guys

 

[MGibster]

I don't think it is, or even was for very long. At its core, D&D is an adventure game.

In the table top war gaming community we'd call it a skirmish level war game. It's an adventure game, sure. An adventure game with a strong focus on kicking down doors, killing absolutely everything in the room, and looting their bodies.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I would argue that the combat in D&D isn't violence. Rather it is gameplay. It is violence the same way that (American) football is violence: technically true, but not the point.

We have different perceptions of the point of American football.

 

[Scribe]

Then what's with the huge focus on combat? One of the core books is called the Monster Manual, and there's very little in it that talks about making friends.

Great point. You have the PHB with all its rules around combat, you have an entire book devoted to the rules, and mostly in combat application of the abilities of the monsters we are sent to fight, and the DMG which is, well I never read it, I assume about getting players from point a, to point b, to fight the monsters.

Its a game about killing stuff, always has been.

 

[Scribe]

We have different perceptions of the point of American football.

I sometimes go back to the old highlight videos "thats an ejection...he would be gone...thats a full on suspension..."