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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9265906" data-attributes="member: 42040">I'm very rarely a player, so perhaps it's more difficult for me to get into the player mindset. To me, the randomness reminds me of when I was in middle school and my character got access to a Wish spell through a Deck of Many Things. I Wished my friend's character into a woodchuck. There were lulz. Random charts seem good for that old-school mentality where you enjoy seeing terrible traps and awful spells destroy your friends' progress in the game - because &quot;at least it's not your character.&quot;As one of my players commented last session &quot;It's not 1974 anymore.&quot; I don't need adversarial charts of terrible, random things to do to characters, like a game system that uses Grimtooth's Traps as its core resolution mechanic. Put this way. I love classic arcade games. I can happily play Galaga for about 15 minutes to see if I can beat my personal record before I lose my ships, but I'm not going to lose myself in it for hours like I would Skyrim (or my wife does with Breath of the Wild or Baldur's Gate 3). DCC seems like one of those classic arcade games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 9265906, member: 42040"] I'm very rarely a player, so perhaps it's more difficult for me to get into the player mindset. To me, the randomness reminds me of when I was in middle school and my character got access to a Wish spell through a Deck of Many Things. I Wished my friend's character into a woodchuck. There were lulz. Random charts seem good for that old-school mentality where you enjoy seeing terrible traps and awful spells destroy your friends' progress in the game - because "at least it's not your character." As one of my players commented last session "It's not 1974 anymore." I don't need adversarial charts of terrible, random things to do to characters, like a game system that uses Grimtooth's Traps as its core resolution mechanic. Put this way. I love classic arcade games. I can happily play Galaga for about 15 minutes to see if I can beat my personal record before I lose my ships, but I'm not going to lose myself in it for hours like I would Skyrim (or my wife does with Breath of the Wild or Baldur's Gate 3). DCC seems like one of those classic arcade games. [/QUOTE]

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