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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 924975" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p><strong>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You don't have to be stupid or foolish (I don't think you are; from your posts in other threads we have similar taste in many things, therefore I think you're bright and smartish <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ), and since it's not a game where we're competing, chances are someone could easily use your lenience to their advantage without you feeling like you're being put out. I certainly don't mean by being a whiny bleatchand please can I have a longsword +5, but it's not like I'd worry about taking time to get my armor on before a battle in your campaign, for example.</p><p></p><p>It's not even that I favor heavy use of rules. My game is so house-ruled (gritty doesn't begin to cover it) and off the cuff (because story comes first) that it barely even resembles d20 (and I think I've mentioned elsewhere we don't even use a d20, we use 5d4, to emphasize the midrange like it oughta be). But what my group's style <em>does</em> emphasize is that the players take responsibility for their own enjoyment. Events unfold before them but they make the hard choices.</p><p></p><p>Not a one of my guys would think twice about pulling a Sturm at the High Clerist's Tower, you know?</p><p></p><p>As for the difference between having fun and getting your way, allow me to quote myself from a page ago: "You're right that the point of games is enjoyment. You're wrong though, when you assume enjoyment is the equivalent of always getting your way." Obviously I wouldn't run out buck naked, as a Paladin, and wrassle me some vampires. But I wouldn't spend 4 minutes donning armor while my friends were in danger (which just looks like a big fat action out of alignment to me.. so there go his powers in my game and HA just kidding but that threat got him out the door so whatever works).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 924975, member: 8394"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ?[/b] You don't have to be stupid or foolish (I don't think you are; from your posts in other threads we have similar taste in many things, therefore I think you're bright and smartish :) ), and since it's not a game where we're competing, chances are someone could easily use your lenience to their advantage without you feeling like you're being put out. I certainly don't mean by being a whiny bleatchand please can I have a longsword +5, but it's not like I'd worry about taking time to get my armor on before a battle in your campaign, for example. It's not even that I favor heavy use of rules. My game is so house-ruled (gritty doesn't begin to cover it) and off the cuff (because story comes first) that it barely even resembles d20 (and I think I've mentioned elsewhere we don't even use a d20, we use 5d4, to emphasize the midrange like it oughta be). But what my group's style [I]does[/I] emphasize is that the players take responsibility for their own enjoyment. Events unfold before them but they make the hard choices. Not a one of my guys would think twice about pulling a Sturm at the High Clerist's Tower, you know? As for the difference between having fun and getting your way, allow me to quote myself from a page ago: "You're right that the point of games is enjoyment. You're wrong though, when you assume enjoyment is the equivalent of always getting your way." Obviously I wouldn't run out buck naked, as a Paladin, and wrassle me some vampires. But I wouldn't spend 4 minutes donning armor while my friends were in danger (which just looks like a big fat action out of alignment to me.. so there go his powers in my game and HA just kidding but that threat got him out the door so whatever works). [/QUOTE]
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