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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 4456977" data-attributes="member: 775">Chivalry and Sorcery: For sometime a friend of mime wanted to play C&amp;S. He had all the books--and said that's bonus because they aren't making anymore, unlike d20. He hated d20 and played 3e only a few times. I looked through his books and thought the game was more about creating a simulation of medieval life than actually gaming. &quot;I want more reality in my fantasy,&quot; my friend would say. On the whole, Chivalry and Sorcery seemed incredibly pretentious. In the Gamemaster's guide they gave an example of what happens to player characters who act like characters in &quot;a certain other game&quot; (D&amp;D). Their characters end up being hung from a tree and the players never come back. But despite all this, myself and a couple other friends decided to give C&amp;S a shot--even if just to placate my friend. So we role up characters. Everything was random. You can roll up a king all the way down to a peasant. I rolled up a peasant archer with butterfingers. The archer had like a -15% skill with the bow. Which apparently also increased his chance of fumbling and hurting himself. &quot;Why would I be an archer?&quot; I asked my friend. &quot;Why would anybody let this guy near a bow?&quot; &quot;Oh, its handicap you can overcome.&quot; My friend said. &quot;Can I re-roll his flaw?&quot;&nbsp; My friend said no. I asked again.&nbsp; He still said no. &quot;Part of good roleplaying is being able to overcome a handicap,&quot; he said. &quot;I'm sure you'll find a solution.&quot; &quot;I don't feel like overcoming a handicap,&quot; I said. &quot;I don't want to play a crappy character. My solution is that I'm not going to play.&quot; The other people in the group, having similar things happen to their characters, decided not to play as well. Much to the chagrin of my friend. We never said Chivalry and Sorcery again. And that's all right with me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 4456977, member: 775"] [B]Chivalry and Sorcery:[/B] For sometime a friend of mime wanted to play C&S. He had all the books--and said that's bonus because they aren't making anymore, unlike d20. He hated d20 and played 3e only a few times. I looked through his books and thought the game was more about creating a simulation of medieval life than actually gaming. "I want more reality in my fantasy," my friend would say. On the whole, Chivalry and Sorcery seemed incredibly pretentious. In the Gamemaster's guide they gave an example of what happens to player characters who act like characters in "a certain other game" (D&D). Their characters end up being hung from a tree and the players never come back. But despite all this, myself and a couple other friends decided to give C&S a shot--even if just to placate my friend. So we role up characters. Everything was random. You can roll up a king all the way down to a peasant. I rolled up a peasant archer with butterfingers. The archer had like a -15% skill with the bow. Which apparently also increased his chance of fumbling and hurting himself. "Why would I be an archer?" I asked my friend. "Why would anybody let this guy near a bow?" "Oh, its handicap you can overcome." My friend said. "Can I re-roll his flaw?" My friend said no. I asked again. He still said no. "Part of good roleplaying is being able to overcome a handicap," he said. "I'm sure you'll find a solution." "I don't feel like overcoming a handicap," I said. "I don't want to play a crappy character. My solution is that I'm not going to play." The other people in the group, having similar things happen to their characters, decided not to play as well. Much to the chagrin of my friend. We never said Chivalry and Sorcery again. And that's all right with me. :) [/QUOTE]

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