D&D General Character Individuality

[HammerMan]

Normally we've done it via email, since we don't have a general comm channel otherwise (though I should remember with one of the two groups I have a Discord server now next time it comes up).

TBH we only started useing group text and facebook about a year or two before Covid, we only moved fully digital for safety.

 

[Micah Sweet]

To the extent that it doesn't disrupt other people's enjoyment of the game.


I flatly don't allow non-consensual conflict between characters. At my table, if the rogue wanted to pick the the pocket of another PC I simply wouldn't allow, period. Similarly, PCs cannot effect each other will spells like command/suggestion/etc.

Furthermore, I also do not allow PCs to 'stop' other PCs from doing things. For example, let's say that the Fighter wants to pull a lever/push a button/whatever, I don't allow another PC to attempt to stop them because they think it's a bad idea. There isn't even a "roll to see who gets there first" - people have agency over their characters and get to decide what they do, as long as it doesn't disrupt group cohesion.

If the aforementioned Fighter is pulling the lever just to be disruptive, I'm probably talking to the player away from the table to determine if they're a good fit for my game.


Yes, otherwise you won't be a PC in my game.


'No' and 'No, absolutely not'.

I have found it is very rare to find a group of people who are all interested in, and mature enough for, an impromptu live-action RP that has all the drama, backstabbing, and inter-party secrets of a novel/movie/play. The people I play with come to the table knowing they're a team and they all get a chance to pursue their own special quests/ideas and I expect the other players to support them.

So reality just stops as soon as two PCs try to act at cross purposes? Now THAT I can't understand.

 

[Thomas Shey]

So reality just stops as soon as two PCs try to act at cross purposes? Now THAT I can't understand.

Reality stops in most games at any number of points where it'd be overly inconvenient. Its just a case of where you find it acceptable and where not.

 

[HammerMan]

Reality stops in most games at any number of points where it'd be overly inconvenient. Its just a case of where you find it acceptable and where not.

yeah we use a card system (well metaphysical we don't meet in person so we just say red card) if at any point any player wants to stop and possible modifier what is going on for comfort or fun or more serious reasons we just "I red card"

we sometimes talk about a yellow card...to slow down danger but that always leads to the rainbow color question.

 

[Filthy Lucre]

yeah we use a card system (well metaphysical we don't meet in person so we just say red card) if at any point any player wants to stop and possible modifier what is going on for comfort or fun or more serious reasons we just "I red card"

That's not what metaphysical means.

"[Metaphysics is] the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space."

Doing something remotely doesn't mean anything metaphysical is happening.

 

[HammerMan]

That's not what metaphysical means.

"[Metaphysics is] the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space."

Doing something remotely doesn't mean anything metaphysical is happening.

no but doing it remotly and saying "I red card" or "I throw down my red card" when all of the physical red cards are at my house in storage, and nobody has any card or any item to use is...

 

[Filthy Lucre]

no but doing it remotly and saying "I red card" or "I throw down my red card" when all of the physical red cards are at my house in storage, and nobody has any card or any item to use is...

No. It is not. There's no reason to be defensive. You used a word you didn't actually know the meaning of, you've been corrected, now you can move on.

 

[HammerMan]

No. It is not. There's no reason to be defensive. You used a word you didn't actually know the meaning of, you've been corrected, now you can move on.

except I didn't.

It's no longer a physical object, it is an abstract concept

it's not physical it's metaphysical I would difine metaphsyical as an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception

the card doesn't exsist, no one is throwing it, it is a reality outside of human sense...

 

[Filthy Lucre]

except I didn't.

It's no longer a physical object, it is an abstract concept

it's not physical it's metaphysical

Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Here ya go, buddy. Metaphysical doesn't mean non-physical.

 

[HammerMan]

Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Here ya go, buddy. Metaphysical doesn't mean non-physical.

your not giving up here are you? You really want to argue over word choice do it with someone else.

it's not physical it's metaphysical I would difine metaphysical as an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception

the card doesn't exist, no one is throwing it, it is a reality outside of human sense... no one is throwing a card