D&D 5E Forgotten Realms is being BETRAYED by Wizards

[Corpsetaker]

Which, it hardly needs pointing out (tho obvs I'm gonna do it anyway) that that's a very strange hill to die on, considering that 1) in-jokes and puckish fourth-wall-breaking have been part of this game's traditions from the get-go; and 2) you can go on the YouTubes and watch hours and hours of Perkins actually running a game, quickly revealing that in comparison to an awful lot of tables he's kind of a model of sobriety and restraint.

But, yanno, OotA had the temerity to include a character named "Yuk-Yuk," so clearly my argument is invalid.

There is a big difference between humour that happens outside the game and one that is created with in the game. My group and I like serious games. Do we have a laugh and joke about something that might of happened in the game outside of it? We sure do, but goofy humour that is embedded with in the game is a big turn off for us.

 

[ProgBard]

There is a big difference between humour that happens outside the game and one that is created with in the game. My group and I like serious games. Do we have a laugh and joke about something that might of happened in the game outside of it? We sure do, but goofy humour that is embedded with in the game is a big turn off for us.

 

[Corpsetaker]

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Would you look at that? I can do that too.

 

[ProgBard]

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Would you look at that? I can do that too.

Good for you, sweetie. Have a cookie.

 

[Parmandur]

Which, it hardly needs pointing out (tho obvs I'm gonna do it anyway) that that's a very strange hill to die on, considering that 1) in-jokes and puckish fourth-wall-breaking have been part of this game's traditions from the get-go; and 2) you can go on the YouTubes and watch hours and hours of Perkins actually running a game, quickly revealing that in comparison to an awful lot of tables he's kind of a model of sobriety and restraint.

But, yanno, OotA had the temerity to include a character named "Yuk-Yuk," so clearly my argument is invalid.

Certainly way more serious than any game I've ever participated in...

 

[evileeyore]

Certainly way more serious than any game I've ever participated in...

Sign me up for Perkins and Yuk-Yuk levels of seriousness.

 

[ProgBard]

Certainly way more serious than any game I've ever participated in...

Nor I, and my material at least is slanted pretty heavily toward the "serious" end.

As is the official adventure content we've seen thus far, save for maybe the occasional callback to the funhouse dungeons of yore. And yet, someone who had not actually viewed it would be forgiven for concluding that Out of the Abyss was chock-a-block with zany laffs, rather than a fairly dark and perilous struggle against mind-bending insanity dusted with occasional touches of gothic whimsy.

 

[MNblockhead]

I don't own OoTA, but if it is just a character name, seems pretty easy to change it.

I do own Curse of Straud and there are a few puns in it that are real groaners, but, again, they are very minor (names on tombs mostly, iirc) and easily changed or ignored.