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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9306049" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>I never said it was unreasonable. I just said it might be impractical, depending on the game.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On the other hand when at least some of the ones I mentioned are pretty popular, acting like they may not be one of the ones at hand isn't doing the conversation any favors either. And that's not even getting into the question of games that are older in design but still have some modern life. Bluntly, I'm not sure some of the D&D sphere are things I'd want to try to do one-offs of for people not already familiar with those.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The difference, I think is that "You can run one offs" only makes sense when <em>all</em> the games in interest are relatively lightweight and easy to pick up; if even <em>some</em> of them aren't, the problem still applies. So I think if someone wants to claim no problem is going to be present, its the people assuming the light weight games, not those assuming at least <em>some</em> might be heavier. Even scooping out the D&D sphere, nothing much suggests to me that the majority of the RPG hobby as-played is overwhelming that particularly easy to pick up on the fly even now, and if someone does, I have to seriously suggest they're projecting the specific end of it they're used to paying attention. The Fantasy Flight Star Wars game, various Chronicles of Darkness games or Fantasy Age 2e are not somehow massively less likely to be in the mix than Mouseguard or Ironsworn, and if all of them are in the mix, the problem is still a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9306049, member: 7026617"] I never said it was unreasonable. I just said it might be impractical, depending on the game. On the other hand when at least some of the ones I mentioned are pretty popular, acting like they may not be one of the ones at hand isn't doing the conversation any favors either. And that's not even getting into the question of games that are older in design but still have some modern life. Bluntly, I'm not sure some of the D&D sphere are things I'd want to try to do one-offs of for people not already familiar with those. The difference, I think is that "You can run one offs" only makes sense when [I]all[/I] the games in interest are relatively lightweight and easy to pick up; if even [I]some[/I] of them aren't, the problem still applies. So I think if someone wants to claim no problem is going to be present, its the people assuming the light weight games, not those assuming at least [I]some[/I] might be heavier. Even scooping out the D&D sphere, nothing much suggests to me that the majority of the RPG hobby as-played is overwhelming that particularly easy to pick up on the fly even now, and if someone does, I have to seriously suggest they're projecting the specific end of it they're used to paying attention. The Fantasy Flight Star Wars game, various Chronicles of Darkness games or Fantasy Age 2e are not somehow massively less likely to be in the mix than Mouseguard or Ironsworn, and if all of them are in the mix, the problem is still a problem. [/QUOTE]
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