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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9479048" data-attributes="member: 9053"><p>Of course. The thing that I think you, and other posters who like this playstyle, are forgetting is that if you've only read the 5E PHB you don't have the ideas that people who have played other games have experienced. If you look through Dungeon World, for instance (which isn't that great of a game, mind you...) you will see a lot about narrative play. You might say "Hey, why don't I just give players authority to do this..." but the game itself doesn't tell you anything about how to do this or mechanically support this playstyle. The game Fabula Ultima is great for giving you tools to do narrative things within the rules of the game, and I highly recommend it.</p><p></p><p>here's no reason you couldn't play D&D narratively, just like there's no reason you couldn't play in solo. And yet I would suggest looking at a game like Ironsworn if you want actual rules to play it that way. So yeah, you can do anything you want with 5E, I'd just suggest that if you don't have experience outside of the basic rules, you're going to have trouble. There is a difference between "There's nothing stopping you from doing this..." and "...Here's how to do it."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 9479048, member: 9053"] Of course. The thing that I think you, and other posters who like this playstyle, are forgetting is that if you've only read the 5E PHB you don't have the ideas that people who have played other games have experienced. If you look through Dungeon World, for instance (which isn't that great of a game, mind you...) you will see a lot about narrative play. You might say "Hey, why don't I just give players authority to do this..." but the game itself doesn't tell you anything about how to do this or mechanically support this playstyle. The game Fabula Ultima is great for giving you tools to do narrative things within the rules of the game, and I highly recommend it. here's no reason you couldn't play D&D narratively, just like there's no reason you couldn't play in solo. And yet I would suggest looking at a game like Ironsworn if you want actual rules to play it that way. So yeah, you can do anything you want with 5E, I'd just suggest that if you don't have experience outside of the basic rules, you're going to have trouble. There is a difference between "There's nothing stopping you from doing this..." and "...Here's how to do it." [/QUOTE]
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