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<blockquote data-quote="Darwinism" data-source="post: 5676889" data-attributes="member: 6669722"><p>Oh, I see people new to RPGs in general every new season of Encounters. See, it's broadcast to people in the stores we run in, and since we generally have a fun time people broadcast that. Thusly...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And that's why Pathfinder should try and emulate something like Encounters. The hobby has to have new blood and it can't rely on random outgoing players for it; the producers must encourage it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Encounters is purposefully campaign light because it's meant to allow people to jump in at any point without ten minutes of, "And so it came to pass that Bill the Dragonslayer seduced the Lord of the Swamp's third cousin twice removed and there was loads of drama," because that's a turnoff to a lot of people. You don't want to be told that cool <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> has happened, you want to <em>do</em> cool <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />. Also, have you ever actually played Encounters? There is always an overarching story, the encounters are always very solidly related, and expecting the intricacies of a dedicated story path from what amounts to, "This is sort of what D&D is," to beginners is just silly. Do you expect first level organized play to actually mimic the intricacies a good DM can come up with at higher levels, or something?</p><p></p><p><span style="color: red"><strong>Mod Edit:</strong> Folks, if you're getting strident enough to invoke the language filter, you've gone too far, and we'll take it as a sign that you are no longer going to control yourself. Take this as an example that you, too should tone it down, or you'll get removed from the thread like Darwinism here. ~Umbran</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darwinism, post: 5676889, member: 6669722"] Oh, I see people new to RPGs in general every new season of Encounters. See, it's broadcast to people in the stores we run in, and since we generally have a fun time people broadcast that. Thusly... And that's why Pathfinder should try and emulate something like Encounters. The hobby has to have new blood and it can't rely on random outgoing players for it; the producers must encourage it. Encounters is purposefully campaign light because it's meant to allow people to jump in at any point without ten minutes of, "And so it came to pass that Bill the Dragonslayer seduced the Lord of the Swamp's third cousin twice removed and there was loads of drama," because that's a turnoff to a lot of people. You don't want to be told that cool :):):):) has happened, you want to [i]do[/i] cool :):):):). Also, have you ever actually played Encounters? There is always an overarching story, the encounters are always very solidly related, and expecting the intricacies of a dedicated story path from what amounts to, "This is sort of what D&D is," to beginners is just silly. Do you expect first level organized play to actually mimic the intricacies a good DM can come up with at higher levels, or something? [color=red][B]Mod Edit:[/B] Folks, if you're getting strident enough to invoke the language filter, you've gone too far, and we'll take it as a sign that you are no longer going to control yourself. Take this as an example that you, too should tone it down, or you'll get removed from the thread like Darwinism here. ~Umbran[/color] [/QUOTE]
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