In a sense.Isn't collective storytelling, like, the main thing about RPGs?
Is there any other way to roleplay?I thought it was to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Sounds like you're better informed on this than I am. I thought Moves in AW were designed with a lot of narrative flexibility that allowed the person making the Move to define the game world to some extent.There are no dramatic editing features in Apocalypse World or most hacks based on it. Games commonly thought of as "story games" are no more likely to have dramatic editing features than more mainstream RPGs.
There's some of that in Dungeon World (which in many ways is not a very typical example of a Powered by the Apocalypse game). There are also fairly mainstream games like Numenera, Scion, and Mutants and Masterminds that feature dramatic editing.Sounds like you're better informed on this than I am. I thought Moves in AW were designed with a lot of narrative flexibility that allowed the person making the Move to define the game world to some extent.
How about something like Lovecraftesque, or Ten Candles? Would those be better examples?
To crush your funions, to see the bowl of funions shrinking before you, and to hear the lamentations of the other players.Is there any other way to roleplay?![]()
In other words, role-playing my character.I thought it was to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
You can call the Castle Ravenloft board game D&D if you want. I don't. That doesn't mean it can't be an enjoyable game.
Feel free to call what you're doing D&D, I would not. Disagree? Okay.![]()
Technically the DMG has a way of playing while not having a designated DM... I don't personally think it's any good, but it's real, so a game can still be DnD without a DM.Exactly my point.
Your original point was that some unknown but large portion of d&d games could not run without a dm as chaos described.
chaos coming back and saying his method works for one smaller subset really missed your overall point.
i wish he would have started off by addressing your original point.