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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7190677" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>No, that is not "the truth". That's you once again ascribing negative motivations on the developers/writers based on your own limitations. This isn't some great conspiracy where you know "the REAL TRUTH!" And quite frankly, it's getting very tiring that any and every time something isn't written the way you want, you insult the team either by calling them incompetent or lazy, and calling anyone who disagrees with you as being apologists or "defending the indefensible"*. To be honest, you are the worst of armchair quarterbacks, because people have said to you over and over, "CapnZapp, you have put a TON of time and effort in trying to find solutions, so why are you releasing your ideas on DMs Guild so others can benefit?" And you refuse. You just keep complaining about the design team and the game. Maybe if you released your own stuff, you might have a sense of appreciation as to what actually goes into designing a game rather than insulting the people who do, acting like you know the right way of doing it.</p><p></p><p>You also seem to fail to realize that it's the DM's <em>job </em>to narrate what had happened if the PCs end up questioning how or why a knight could kill a giant. It's not hard. Two of use have already given you examples that we spent all of 2 seconds thinking of to make it plausible. You are either unwilling, or unable, to be able to come up with a reasonable explanation as to what may have occurred. It is clear you're hung up on the statblock and pay absolutely zero attention to how a game world exists--the environment, the motivations, etc. Not just this thread, but pretty much every thread. Unless the writers specifically tell you how to handle a situation step by step, you act like there is no way it could have been done and/or it can't exist. From threads like this where you can't conceive of a way a knight could ambush a pair of giants, to monster threads where you complain that if something isn't in the statblock of a monster, they can't do anything. In a game all about imagination, I would think that they wouldn't need to spell out every possible thing you can do with living intelligent creatures in a game world.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*Edit* Holy....that didn't take long did it? In the time of me typing out this reply, you just did it again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7190677, member: 15700"] No, that is not "the truth". That's you once again ascribing negative motivations on the developers/writers based on your own limitations. This isn't some great conspiracy where you know "the REAL TRUTH!" And quite frankly, it's getting very tiring that any and every time something isn't written the way you want, you insult the team either by calling them incompetent or lazy, and calling anyone who disagrees with you as being apologists or "defending the indefensible"*. To be honest, you are the worst of armchair quarterbacks, because people have said to you over and over, "CapnZapp, you have put a TON of time and effort in trying to find solutions, so why are you releasing your ideas on DMs Guild so others can benefit?" And you refuse. You just keep complaining about the design team and the game. Maybe if you released your own stuff, you might have a sense of appreciation as to what actually goes into designing a game rather than insulting the people who do, acting like you know the right way of doing it. You also seem to fail to realize that it's the DM's [I]job [/I]to narrate what had happened if the PCs end up questioning how or why a knight could kill a giant. It's not hard. Two of use have already given you examples that we spent all of 2 seconds thinking of to make it plausible. You are either unwilling, or unable, to be able to come up with a reasonable explanation as to what may have occurred. It is clear you're hung up on the statblock and pay absolutely zero attention to how a game world exists--the environment, the motivations, etc. Not just this thread, but pretty much every thread. Unless the writers specifically tell you how to handle a situation step by step, you act like there is no way it could have been done and/or it can't exist. From threads like this where you can't conceive of a way a knight could ambush a pair of giants, to monster threads where you complain that if something isn't in the statblock of a monster, they can't do anything. In a game all about imagination, I would think that they wouldn't need to spell out every possible thing you can do with living intelligent creatures in a game world. *Edit* Holy....that didn't take long did it? In the time of me typing out this reply, you just did it again. [/QUOTE]
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