The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[darjr]

Cold hard facts. It's good!

 

[overgeeked]

What’s that phrase Snarf uses? “It works in practice but not in theory.” Yeah, that’s about right.

 

[payn]

Reading some of these threads, I dont see how anybody gets along at the game table

 

[Thomas Shey]

Reading some of these threads, I dont see how anybody gets along at the game table

The great sad truth is a lot of people, to one degree or another, don't. That's true in a lot of things, honestly, but there's simultaneously some stressors you don't see in other situations, and less exterior things to restrain some of the negative reactions you get.

 

[darjr]

The great sad truth is a lot of people, to one degree or another, don't. That's true in a lot of things, honestly, but there's simultaneously some stressors you don't see in other situations, and less exterior things to restrain some of the negative reactions you get.

Even people that do will have disagreements. Sometimes strong ones. It's why rule zero for the GM/Referee is important to just end any debates and get the game moving forward.

And not because they can get contentions either. I've had strong disagreements with friends at the game table and while we were having fun debating the issue at hand the rest of the table was not. So I just said "were doing this and moving on" and came back to it later.

but It doesn't need to be an implicit rule, it's just common courtesy when there is a "referee".

 

[Ryujin]

Even people that do will have disagreements. Sometimes strong ones. It's why rule zero for the GM/Referee is important to just end any debates and get the game moving forward.

And not because they can get contentions either. I've had strong disagreements with friends at the game table and while we were having fun debating the issue at hand the rest of the table was not. So I just said "were doing this and moving on" and came back to it later.

but It doesn't need to be an implicit rule, it's just common courtesy when there is a "referee".

I have made it an implicit rule in the past. When we run up against something that we're unsure of I'll rule in the moment, move on, and we all check into it between sessions so that it's not an issue going forward. One of the worst things that can happen, in a session, is for it to break down into 3 hours of rules lawyering instead of playing.

 

[darjr]

I have made it an implicit rule in the past. When we run up against something that we're unsure of I'll rule in the moment, move on, and we all check into it between sessions so that it's not an issue going forward. One of the worst things that can happen, in a session, is for it to break down into 3 hours of rules lawyering instead of playing.

Absolutely.

 

[overgeeked]

A: “This negative thing is also a possibility.”

B, C, D, and E: “How dare you say that is 100% true and actually happening! You can’t possibly know that! How dare you?!”

A: “I didn’t say that…but okay. Don’t actually read the post and freak out instead. Do you, I guess.”

 

[overgeeked]

“No one sets out to make bad games, bad games still get made.” —Scott Rogers

 

[Thomas Shey]

Even people that do will have disagreements. Sometimes strong ones. It's why rule zero for the GM/Referee is important to just end any debates and get the game moving forward.

And not because they can get contentions either. I've had strong disagreements with friends at the game table and while we were having fun debating the issue at hand the rest of the table was not. So I just said "were doing this and moving on" and came back to it later.

but It doesn't need to be an implicit rule, it's just common courtesy when there is a "referee".

The problem with that, and to be clear I've done it too, is that the person cut off can easily read that as "Moving on matters more than resolving problems. Got it." And that can easily lead to some of the other pathologies you see in the hobby.

There's no winning on this stuff. Some times its just going to be a problem, and you have to decide which set of problems you want to deal with.