D&D General Respeckt Mah Authoritah: Understanding High Trust and the Division of Authority

[Umbran]

So now you need to buy 15-20 different books in order to be taught how to DM?

That's not just worse, that's objectively terrible.

I don't think the point is that you need all of them. Just that if you pick up any one of them, you'll have useful stuff.

 

[Thomas Shey]

That's an odd GM requirement, but if you like siting around talking more then playing a game, then your welcome to have that sort of fun.

I'd like to play a game that's being run for the whole group, not just the GM's idea of everything. If having your way everytime as a GM is the only way you can enjoy doing that--well, its your players job to decide what to do about that, not mine.

(And no, I'm not going to buy into your all-or-nothing "give up immediately or do nothing but argue" construction. There's a world of space in between those two and if you don't want to accept that, it says more about your perspective than the realities).

 

[Lanefan]

Any idea how distribution was in general in Canada in the 80s adn early 90s? My experience as a teenager in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area was pretty much the same as @Maxperson described for LA despite living in a much smaller metropolitan area, but the reason I ask about Canada in general is the original 2e books did not have Canadian pricing on the back while the 1993 and later reprints did.

In the 1979-82 run you could get D&D stuff here in Victoria but you had to know where to look.

By the mid-80s D&D was everywhere, including at least one greeting card shop; and some long-standing game/comic stores had become established.

 

[Lanefan]

Some other people like to start playing an RPG for a couple minutes....and then stop so an "expert" player can "challenge" the GM and insist that it is physically impossible for anyone ever to shoot and arrow from a bow "straight up into the air". And then spend hours talking and arguing about that.

That's an easy argument to solve: "Sure you can shoot an arrow straight up into the air, but you might want to move before it comes back down...."

 

[Umbran]

That's fine with me - it means we get referees willing to live with their mistakes and in the end become better for it.

It isn't just the referee that has to live with it, though.

 

[Lanefan]

It isn't just the referee that has to live with it, though.

side note, maybe for meta:

FYI I got the notification that I'd been quoted (in the post I quote above) about a minute before the post actually appeared in the thread. Interesting.

/side note

 

[Maxperson]

That's an odd GM requirement, but if you like siting around talking more then playing a game, then your welcome to have that sort of fun.

If by odd you mean the normal way things seem to be done, I agree! The typical DM doesn't use sit down and shut up when people disagree with him.

Some other people like to start playing an RPG for a couple minutes....and then stop so an "expert" player can "challenge" the GM and insist that it is physically impossible for anyone ever to shoot and arrow from a bow "straight up into the air". And then spend hours talking and arguing about that.

This isn't what was said or suggested.

 

[jasper]

Don't play with jerks.

looks in the mirror. OOPS. That what I been doing wrong.

 

[jasper]

Pretty sure that they have a macro for that. Written in COBOL.

The voice of my people.

 

[Maxperson]

The voice of my people.

Are you.........are you a cylon!?