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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theory of Games" data-source="post: 9717167" data-attributes="member: 7042201">Yeah my first mistake here was even entertaining a conversation about "What if John McClane was a D&D character". D&D could never ever do Die Hard or anything resembling it. Next point ---We didn't fudge dice, but we did use tactics like avoiding fights with a lot of stealth and negotiation. If that's cheating then you're playing the game wrongYou have your experiences and I have mine. Clearly, your group(s) played a more haphazard style of D&D. We rolled out in the open so there was no question of results, even during chargen. If we failed a roll, we failed - it's just a gameYour use of the term "Strawman" here makes no sense BTW Win in the end, but most if not all fictional heroes take a beating before they eventually win. It's how drama works. In your opinion. I say the heroes are exceptional people, like McClane, Legolas, Ethan Hunt, James Bond, Conan, ect. Every day real people survive near-death experiences because they were skilled and/or lucky - no plot armor requiredOr - if those were your characters - you might just suck at playing the game. If it was other players in your group, sucking might still apply. After running ttrpgs for various groups for decades on- & offline I've learned many players are terrible at roleplaying. Especially combat (which I think is why so many players rage against 'combat-intensive' rpgs) as few players (and GMs) understand that studying real-world combat strategy actually helps at the tableUltimately, I'm not knocking Metacurrencies altogether. It's like with riding a bike: some people can just jump on & ride, while others need a helmet and pads for added protection. Metacurrencies are protections for those who need them<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />Metacurrencies are spent in exchange for temporary advantages. Hit Points don't work like that. At least not in most of the ttrpgs that have themWell Metacurrencies aren't 100% reliable in all situations either. But the big difference is a lucky roll is the strong natural foundation of emergent gameplay. What Metacurrencies do is turn organic natural roleplaying into a manufactured staged sort of storytelling. Now if you like canned storygaming, then Metacurrencies are clearly very valuable - but I like knowing that everything that happens in-character is natural and spontaneous (including failure)As I stated above, IME PC death usually has more to do with poor roleplaying than how an rpg system functions. There's tactics to every game. But, I will also concede that older editions of D&D were decidedly deadly - a perk IMOYour evidence. Are you suggesting that older edition D&D PCs never survived? None of them? Are all the stories of groups getting to levels 7-10 and retiring their PCs all vicious lies?Well, sometimes we just roll bad. One thing about dice rolls though: they're fair. What happens, happens. No staged or manufactured outcomes or plot armor. But, I understand some people enjoy storytelling exercises as opposed to playing a ttrpg. To each their own <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

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