Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Sounds neat.It's not. The section isn't about turning into a mindflayer.
It's about adding tentacles you don't control to your body or other similar things
Sounds neat.It's not. The section isn't about turning into a mindflayer.
It's about adding tentacles you don't control to your body or other similar things
Maybe you have someone blocked, or they you? Because my post you quoted directly quoted someone bringing up cosmic horror.Where? I did not notice it. If you were quoting you forgot to
Yes, some players would really like the experience. Others would not. That's what this whole conversation is about, not forcing people into situations that are harmful to their own health.Sounds neat.
of all the things in D&D why would turning into a tentacle monster need discussion?
Being turns to stone by a Medusa, dying, being fried by a dragons breath are not good outcomes.
I am not trying to be silly when I ask: will consent for character death be explicit in the new dmg?
Must be the case. Your post just looked like a non sequitur to me.Maybe you have someone blocked, or they you? Because my post you quoted directly quoted someone bringing up cosmic horror.
It would honestly never occur to me that my friends would be genuinely upset about a curse or turning into a monster.
If they were and I knew it I would plan something different but that would be shocking.
No warnings needed there either: forced or unexpected alignment change was a thing in 1e and nobody really batted an eye about it.
There's a difference between deciding to take death off the table and requiring consent to have it. Does the game have no assumptions at all? What exactly are you allowed to have in the game without explicitly having a conversation about it? Should we make a list of acceptable monsters? Should WotC?Why not?
Why presume that just because you’re groovy with it, everyone else is too?
See because there’s the side of this that’s getting ignored. If I speak up and say, I don’t want X in the game, several folks have said that I would be ejected from their game. Not welcome at the table.
That certainly creates lots of pressure to not say anything. On top of the huge amount of pressure on people to never admit to any sort of weakness in the first place.
I find it utterly baffling that people put a game ahead of the real feelings of real people but there’s an awful lot of that in this thread alone.
So why shouldn’t there be a conversation about character death? Heck 5e DnD is set up that it’s really hard to kill a pc unless the DM deliberately does it.
Taking death off the table was done in DnD in the eighties. Not sure why it’s an issue today.