Dark Fantasy

[Creamsteak]

Edena, you need to learn to interject such words as 'sometimes', 'some', 'a few', and 'maybe' into your diatribe before I will buy into it. Nothing happens 100% across the board in all cases.

However, once you do add those words, I can see your angle, however, I don't really see the point.

People play rpgs for various reasons, high, low, dark, light, fantasy, science fiction, old west, modern ( and any other possibilities I left out), for me, rpgs back in the '80's kept me out of trouble. Now, it is sitting around and telling stories, in a way, as DM, it is somewhat like directing movies I want to see (with all ad-lib actors). I lead towards a dark, low fantasy setting, and get by just fine without getting extremely explicit.

hellbender

It's not for sure yet, but I think our world is in the process of proving that all people die 100% of the time, across the board, in all cases. It could get proven wrong, but sofar research is working pretty good...

 

[Dinkeldog]

Not quite in 100% of cases. Some people are reported missing and no evidence of their demise is ever found.

It does seem quite likely, though.

 

[Dragonblade]

Well, I wouldn't call your game Dark Fantasy at all.

I would call it whiny munchkin immature teen-agers who act out power fantasies via their gaming.

But truly I pity them. For in the end their campaign burned out and self-destructed. And in-game they were rulers of a dead husk of a campaign world.

Quite an excellent demonstration on the ultimate failure and self-consuming nature of evil.

 

[Darkness]

It's not for sure yet, but I think our world is in the process of proving that all people die 100% of the time, across the board, in all cases. It could get proven wrong, but sofar research is working pretty good...

LOL!
Yeah... Broad generalizations like hellbender's (and Edena's, if he said it like that) are false - almost always (but not always, as you - kinda - proved).

Anyway: Your example doesn't negate hellbender's point in the slightest; all you did was prove that he made the same mistake that he ascribed to Edena.

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

Well, I wouldn't call your game Dark Fantasy at all.

I would call it whiny munchkin immature teen-agers who act out power fantasies via their gaming.

But truly I pity them. For in the end their campaign burned out and self-destructed. And in-game they were rulers of a dead husk of a campaign world.

Quite an excellent demonstration on the ultimate failure and self-consuming nature of evil.

I thought we all learned this lesson after having read the first Dragonlance Legends Trilogy.

-F

 

[Carnifex]

Edena, you seem to insist on making a ridiculous and frankly, to me, incredibly insulting assumption. Still just young enough to be a teenager, I am hurt to read your unpleasant and rather narrow view about teenage males.

Maybe the teenage males *you* know, but I sure as hell have never run any games like the one you describe, nor have my players ever indicated they want to take part in one. Since all the face-to-face games I've taken part in have been amde up mostly of teenage males (the online games I run/play in usually have an age range of 20-40 instead) and I havem't long come out of the British secondary education system I have a pretty good idea of todays youth, at least here in Britain, and what you describe is, very simply, completely inaccurate.

Very rarely a strange enough group of people like the ones you described might come together to indulge their own bizarre urges but that is hardly the norm, or even close to the norm.

But as far as I can tell, you are telling *me* that, as a teenage male, I am like those people you described earlier. I think a reality check is in order, my friend.

 

[zouron]

Edena I think there can never be a exclusive answer to whether or not it is healthy or not, for some it might be, for some it wouldn't, depends a lot on the person and the person's mentality. It is sorta like is TV mad discussion, or any other where people want to put blame and put down a single answer to soemthing that has many answers.

I personally usually have a very heroic taste, but sure I like every now and then a good horror game, or even to go "MDK" so badies. And yes DnD is based on killing, but I think the attractrion is much mroe then just that, I will let other think as to what.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I am a male teenager. So obviously I can confirm whether some of what you said happens in my campaign or not.

We curse and use vulgar language alot, this is proably caused by our school enviroment where the same thing hppens cnstantly as well.

None of my characters are good, but none are evil either (CN or LN) in alignment.

As for destroying cities they once burned down a small town of about 100 people, one of them was captured because of this and made a gladiator. But on occaison they have helped stopped evil, such as when they fougth a cult of vecna, which one of them currently still is doing. One of them, a dwarven barbarian prince, has currently rallyed his people and prepares to launch an attack on a small island and cnquer it.

No rape has or ever will occur in my campaign. Nor any other sick perverted stuff.

Oh yeah once they did torture a cultist to gain information, and the barbarian prince like to mutilate the bodies of dead foes

 

[hellbender]

LOL!
Yeah... Broad generalizations like hellbender's (and Edena's, if he said it like that) are false - almost always (but not always, as you - kinda - proved).

Anyway: Your example doesn't negate hellbender's point in the slightest; all you did was prove that he made the same mistake that he ascribed to Edena.

Some days, the Peanut Gallery runs rampant around here.....I meant that 100% *generalizations* (in this case regarding teenage boys) are not reliable. Next time, I will attach blueprints.

hellbender