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[Deset Gled]

That and Warlords, yeah?

Every edition has a reputation. And those reputations are not given, they are earned as scars in battles so terrible that entire forums have fallen. Damage On A Miss is a scar that is an old friend. We touch it and play with it, numb to the pain that once was, feeling only a paradoxical rough smoothness as our fingers follow the ridges of history as we choose both to remember and forget as we please. But not the Warlord. The Warlord is a scar that still burns. Still itches. Some chose to avert their eyes, but others cannot help but pick, pick, pick at it. Myself, I wonder what scars we will remember most from 5e. The SRD? The true names of editions? The Ranger? But I do not speak of the Warlord, lest it be remembered too much.

 

[payn]

Every edition has a reputation. And those reputations are not given, they are earned as scars in battles so terrible that entire forums have fallen. Damage On A Miss is a scar that is an old friend. We touch it and play with it, numb to the pain that once was, feeling only a paradoxical rough smoothness as our fingers follow the ridges of history as we choose both to remember and forget as we please. But not the Warlord. The Warlord is a scar that still burns. Still itches. Some chose to avert their eyes, but others cannot help but pick, pick, pick at it. Myself, I wonder what scars we will remember most from 5e. The SRD? The true names of editions? The Ranger? But I do not speak of the Warlord, lest it be remembered too much.

Everyone has their warlord. Mine is alignment.

 

[Gradine]

Everyone has their warlord. Mine is alignment.

I have so many, too many to name.

 

[CleverNickName]

Is it wrong that as soon as “X encounters per adventuring day” being “a requirement” comes up in any 5e rules based thread I roll my eyes and stop reading?

Because my mental health has been much improved by this policy.

I've implemented this rule for lots of things over the years.

First, it was anytime someone mentioned "bounded accuracy." As soon as I saw those two specific words in that specific order, I stopped reading and left the forum. Nobody was going to say anything new, my mind wasn't going to change, and whatever it was they had written wasn't going to be worth the damage to my blood pressure.

Over the years, I've found myself doing this for "railroad," "sandbox," and "abstract hit points." Most recently, I've started doing that anytime I see the words "narrative play." It's better for everyone if I just immediately disengage.

 

[overgeeked]

I've implemented this rule for lots of things over the years.

First, it was anytime someone mentioned "bounded accuracy." As soon as I saw those two specific words in that specific order, I stopped reading and left the forum. Nobody was going to say anything new, my mind wasn't going to change, and whatever it was they had written wasn't going to be worth the damage to my blood pressure.

Over the years, I've found myself doing this for "railroad," "sandbox," and "abstract hit points." Most recently, I've started doing that anytime I see the words "narrative play." It's better for everyone if I just immediately disengage.

For me I just throw people on ignore when they use GNS jargon and describe referees running games as “mother may I.” It’s disappeared so much groan-worthy content and definitely eased the old blood pressure. There’s nothing those folks have to say that interests me. It’s really funny scrolling through a thread with one or zero posts on a page. A few of those pages in a row tells me there’s no point clicking through the rest of the thread as it’s just the same few people talking past each other having the same arguments thread after thread after thread.

 

[CleverNickName]

For me I just throw people on ignore when they use GNS jargon and describe referees running games as “mother may I.” It’s disappeared so much groan-worthy content and definitely eased the old blood pressure. There’s nothing those folks have to say that interests me. It’s really funny scrolling through a thread with one or zero posts on a page. A few of those pages in a row tells me there’s no point clicking through the rest of the thread as it’s just the same few people talking past each other having the same arguments thread after thread after thread.

I've used the Ignore feature before, but most often it's not just one or two users that are the problem. If I'm being completely honest? I'm the problem, and so I just quickly and quietly excuse myself from the discussion.

If folks want to bark at each other about how abstract hit points break the bounded accuracy of the system and force a railroaded narrative onto the gameplay (or whatever, I wasn't paying attention), they're gonna have to do it without me. I'll be over here, doing literally anything else.

 

[payn]

I've used the Ignore feature before, but most often it's not just one or two users that are the problem. If I'm being completely honest? I'm the problem, and so I just quickly and quietly excuse myself from the discussion.

If folks want to bark at each other about how abstract hit points break the bounded accuracy of the system and force a railroaded narrative onto the gameplay (or whatever, I wasn't paying attention), they're are gonna have to do it without me. I'll be over here, doing literally anything else.

Yeap, ive developed a topic ignore in my brain that just refuses to see certain topics when created. Not even tempted.

 

[Gradine]

I have so many, too many to name.

In absolutely fairness, pretty much none of them are related to mechanics.

 

[Mad_Jack]

That and Warlords, yeah?

Y'know, I've never really understood why a whole forum of pen-and-paper rpger's had such a problem with a 40-yr-old videogame...

 

[Gradine]

Y'know, I've never really understood why a whole forum of pen-and-paper rpger's had such a problem with a 40-yr-old videogame...

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The paddle controllers were the problem. The paddle controllers are always the problem