Okay i will up front since theres so much controversy. I hate 3x. i like D20 i just hate everything beyond core and a handful of books that WoTC did with it. The basic mechanic is simple and elegant in my opinion.
Now saying that i can say i loathe 3x and had stopped playing it for years. In the last year i
started a warhammer game with a group, then we tried storyteller for fun. Recently a new guy joined and said he joined because I said i didnt like 3x on a forum.
So i figure okay, maybe we hate the same stuff, which for me is pidgeonholing and power gaming, So i switch to true20 after he joins, cause thats good, everyone can be anything and combat still works. so i think its good.
Then this guy joins just as we finish a story and i say that we are switching to a warhammer concept, where u can XP each session and can spend it to improve each sesssion but with only 7 base classes and anyone can take most skills. So i assume pidgeonholing is gone and all is well. Then i get an email from this guy saying he simply wont play anything where u roll a D20 and the fact that its 5% per number on the dice and so per improvement doesnt matter. Exactly the same as Warhammer but simpler. Doesnt matter. We are rolling a D20 so we are having badfun.
How do u deal with this? i incorporated what we have seen of 4e, i make it less of a stereotype. I did what i thought i could to adress 3e isssues and still be unique.
What bothers is not that this guy didnt like my houserules, or even that he didnt like my 4e elements. What bothers me is the he said "this isnt the game i grew up with and i am gone". no i am gonna keep in touch, no lets stay freinds cause everyone was cool. He just bailed on everyone the minute u rolled 1d20 instead of 2d10 for percentage.
Soi how do u deal with this sort of situation? Do u argue points, do u try to get the bottom of thier hate? Or do u say , hell he cant be a player, much as DM". What do u do?
10 years of running games and this is the first time someone left because they didnt like the math. As someone who is coming back to 4e aftar a long sabbatical, this seems lke a big problem.
Now saying that i can say i loathe 3x and had stopped playing it for years. In the last year i
started a warhammer game with a group, then we tried storyteller for fun. Recently a new guy joined and said he joined because I said i didnt like 3x on a forum.
So i figure okay, maybe we hate the same stuff, which for me is pidgeonholing and power gaming, So i switch to true20 after he joins, cause thats good, everyone can be anything and combat still works. so i think its good.
Then this guy joins just as we finish a story and i say that we are switching to a warhammer concept, where u can XP each session and can spend it to improve each sesssion but with only 7 base classes and anyone can take most skills. So i assume pidgeonholing is gone and all is well. Then i get an email from this guy saying he simply wont play anything where u roll a D20 and the fact that its 5% per number on the dice and so per improvement doesnt matter. Exactly the same as Warhammer but simpler. Doesnt matter. We are rolling a D20 so we are having badfun.
How do u deal with this? i incorporated what we have seen of 4e, i make it less of a stereotype. I did what i thought i could to adress 3e isssues and still be unique.
What bothers is not that this guy didnt like my houserules, or even that he didnt like my 4e elements. What bothers me is the he said "this isnt the game i grew up with and i am gone". no i am gonna keep in touch, no lets stay freinds cause everyone was cool. He just bailed on everyone the minute u rolled 1d20 instead of 2d10 for percentage.
Soi how do u deal with this sort of situation? Do u argue points, do u try to get the bottom of thier hate? Or do u say , hell he cant be a player, much as DM". What do u do?
10 years of running games and this is the first time someone left because they didnt like the math. As someone who is coming back to 4e aftar a long sabbatical, this seems lke a big problem.
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