How gonzo will you roll with?

[QuietBrowser]

Personally, I love Eberron/Nentir Vale/Ravnica style gonzo. I play D&D because I play fantasy; the more bogged down with "realism" a game tends to be, I find, the less fun I tend to have.

 

[Li Shenron]

Ideally I would go with monsters ecology and rational traps... but I often find it hard to keep it all together, so I normally go with some unexplainable/unexplained stuff and tell the players that it's up to them to figure out, where really I have no idea either

 

[CapnZapp]

I find the concept of grounded "world-building" to be a fool's errand, best enjoyed by infants, alcoholics, and control-freaks.

Interesting.

I did not even know the first two groups enjoyed grounded world-building.

 

[Ymdar]

I like monster ecologies. I dislike having thousand year old dungeons with living creatures that need food. Or hostile alpha predators living in a dungeon a few rooms down from other creatures but somehow ignoring them.

This is exactly why I don't like and don't DM regular dungeons. I do enjoy a good stronghold every once in a while or a dungeon inhabited by crazy undead but otherwise I really like monster ecology.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Heh, can't argue there. Unless they’ve done something astonishingly dumb to put themselves in the near-death situation, I’m going to give them every chance to do something heroic to save themselves.

You old softy!

 

[BookBarbarian]

Exactly this level of Gonzo.

 

[Satyrn]

No matter how serious I think I want my campaign to be, it always becomes Borderlands.

I have one question for you En World.

Explosions!?!!!?

EXPLOSIONS.

 

[Les Moore]

I'll allow an occasional departure from RAW, but I won't walk away from them. For me, the game need some sort of guidelines, ere it
descends into gibberish, with each following mawp more outlandish than the last.

 

[Invisible Stalker]

Bob Haney DC Comics gonzo

 

[GMMichael]

I did not even know the first two groups enjoyed grounded world-building.

Oh one of them does. Trust me

To me, it's a question of predictability. Either you're chaotic-evil, and anything goes (full gonzo), or you're lawful-good, and most things need to follow a rhyme or a reason. Or you're one of the other six alignments. Just don't ask for mercy from the chaotic-neutral guy.