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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9527111" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Sure, I bet it’s very similar. I mean, I’m sure turning it into a source of evenue has impacted what they do to some extent, but I don’t necessarily think it means they’ve changed everything about the way they play. As has been said, this was already a popular mode of play well before Critical Role. Yeah, I’m not sure. I mean, you’ve changed things a bit to read as metacurrency, but I’m sure if we examine that a bit, it would kind of fall apart. There are gray areas that aren’t so easily classified and so on.I think the idea of a rule or game mechanic being representative of something in the game world is key here, and how that rule represents the thing. We could give the Rogue class a “Moment of Intuition” ability that allows the player to spend a point to automatically dodge an attack. Some would view that as a metacurrency… but why? It’s representative of the Rogue’s intuitive ability to detect and avoid danger. Plenty of other elements represent these things… Perception, Armor Class, Uncanny Dodge, Danger Sense… and so on. The player may say “I’m gonna use my Moment of Intuition here to avoid that attack” but the character isn’t doing that… they are simply detecting and avoiding an attack. Okay, good… just trying to make sure we’re cool.I personally think that the approach of D&D allows for a variety of actions in play, but I think that, for the most part, outside of combat, those actions don’t make for the most compelling game. Well, if I was making “The Diplomat RPG” and was using 5e as the foundation… I’d change quite a bit. I’d ditch all the classes and would come up with a few that make sense for what I want the game to be about. An Ambassador class, a Station Chief class, a Political Player class… that kind of thing. Since combat would have almost bo place in this game, I’d scrap AC and most of the combat system. The characters may still be at risk from physical harm from time to time, but I don’t think hit points would be needed. More important would be some kind of character element to serve as a pacing mechanism in social engagements the way hit points serve as pacing mechanisms for combat. Something to help with the building of tension… to measure the progress of a scene and the characters reaching their goal or not. I couldn’t agree more. I do not understand why this stance still has such a foothold in the RPG community. To me, meta concerns are those truly beyond the game… “it’s almost time to call it a night, I bet the DM wants to get one more fight in, so I’ll just attack these creatures so we can fit the fight in.” Stuff like that. Spending a player resource? That’s playing the game. Why? Your character certainly knows he needs to make strong arguments or otherwise exert influence to get what he wants, and he knows that the finance minister, already having the duke’s trust, won’t have to work as hard to convince the duke. These are known things and the mechanics represent them. Yeah… the idea that discussing the fictional events of an RPG is the same as negotiating a peace treaty between nations is bonkers. I’t be like saying that the physical act of rolling a die is the same as swinging a sword… I mean, they’re both physical actions and require a hand and a tool interacting…</blockquote>

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