D&D 5E Do you care about setting "canon"?

[lowkey13]

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[TwoSix]

True fact- there is no canon so powerful or binding that katana cannot slice through it.

True fact - Romeo married Juliet in a lovely ceremony administered by Hamlet, King of Denmark... until a katana stepped in.

 

[Maxperson]

I think that conflating fabricated lore for a fantasy world and actual observations of the real world might suggest a place where your and pemerton's perspectives may differ.

Lore is lore, whether from observations or fictional. There is no effective difference here. Lore doesn't turn into a suggestion just because it is fictional

 

[lowkey13]

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[TwoSix]

Truer Fact- Katana killed Desdemona, and then killed Iago for being such a gnome. However, Othello did, in fact, commit suicide, because he was a paladin. Which gave birth to the saying, "There was only one good paladin, Othello, and he only did one good thing."

Also true fact - Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare's best play, until the katana showed up after binge-watching Top Chef.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Manbearcat]

Is it grey or beige? Is it hairy or thinning on top? Does it assassinate or only attack adventurers? And rich ones the imitation of whom means eating grapes and drinking sherbet, or the poor ones the imitation of whom means digging ditches and sleeping in mud?

DungeonWorld leaves all this hanging on the individual GM!

And during its downtime, what sorts of games does it play to pass the lazy day away? Imagine if my players had tracked down a dastardly Doppleganger to his lair. Fresh from posing as a chamberlain and denying them admittance to see the king, he is playing Solitare at an intricately carved oak table!

Players: SOLITARE!!!! SOLITARE!!! WTF!!! HE WOULD BE PLAYING MEMORY!!! AND OAK??? GREY PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO DECIDUOUS TREES!!! WAIT, HE'S NOT GREY??? HE'S PURPLE??? WTF!!! YOU ARE THE WORST GM EVER!!!

and so my short GMing career ended....

 

[TwoSix]

And during its downtime, what sorts of games does it play to pass the lazy day away? Imagine if my players had tracked down a dastardly Doppleganger to his lair. Fresh from posing as a chamberlain and denying them admittance to see the king, he is playing Solitare at an intricately carved oak table!

Players: SOLITARE!!!! SOLITARE!!! WTF!!! HE WOULD BE PLAYING MEMORY!!! AND OAK??? GREY PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO DECIDUOUS TREES!!! WAIT, HE'S NOT GREY??? HE'S PURPLE??? WTF!!! YOU ARE THE WORST GM EVER!!!

and so my short GMing career ended....

If a doppleganger is playing a lizardman in a swamp, can we actually attack it?

 

[Manbearcat]

If a doppleganger is playing a lizardman in a swamp, can we actually attack it?

So you want to attack the Shrodingers dopplganger as lizardman in the Shrodingers swamp? Let me check the Complete Fighter's Handbook for the combat maneuver. Nope. Not there.

Ok, roll these 5 arbitrary rolls (each of which have about a discrete 40 % chance of success). If you succeed you can roll damage. If you fail the universe falls on your head. Oh you wouldn't have made that action declaration if you would have known that in advance? Sorry guy. This is legit roleplaying here, not ROLLPLAYING OK. No backsies. Suck it up and get in character. The universe has just fallen on your head, what do you do?

 

[TwoSix]

So you want to attack the Shrodingers dopplganger as lizardman in the Shrodingers swamp? Let me check the Complete Fighter's Handbook for the combat maneuver. Nope. Not there.

Ok, roll these 5 arbitrary rolls (each of which have about a discrete 40 % chance of success). If you succeed you can roll damage. If you fail the universe falls on your head. Oh you wouldn't have made that action declaration if you would have known that in advance? Sorry guy. This is legit roleplaying here, not ROLLPLAYING OK. No backsies. Suck it up and get in character. The universe has just fallen on your head, what do you do?

Complain the universe mechanic is dissociated, of course.