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

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I haven’t heard someone invoke the old days “thou shall not read the DMG or MM or be cheating” in 25+ years

some one hasn't played Paranoia

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I haven’t heard someone invoke the old days “thou shall not read the DMG or MM or be cheating” in 25+ years. Seems silly assuming that’s a standard among the community…

You don’t have to invoke the rule.

No one reads the DMG.

 

[Ryujin]

I haven’t heard someone invoke the old days “thou shall not read the DMG or MM or be cheating” in 25+ years. Seems silly assuming that’s a standard among the community…

Last time I said that was Dark Conspiracy. I told my players not to read the second half of the book, that was the GM section, because I wanted them to learn the world (and my subtle changes to it) during play. ONE player did it anyway, though he never owned up to it.

 

[MarkB]

I haven’t heard someone invoke the old days “thou shall not read the DMG or MM or be cheating” in 25+ years. Seems silly assuming that’s a standard among the community…

I feel sorry for those people who have a go at DMing and then decide it's not for them. By then the damage has been done, and they can never again return to being players.

 

[CleverNickName]

Nobody can resist forbidden knowledge.

For my homebrew game, I compiled all sorts of notes into a PDF and sent it to the players. It wasn't anything super-important, just a few paragraphs on the different factions in the game, some notes on the gods and pantheons, a few maps of different countries and regions they might want to visit, a timeline of some major events, that sort of thing. It also had a few house-rules in there that I wanted them to be familiar with, and some new character options that they might want to consider. Just stuff I wanted them to keep in mind when they were writing their backstories and creating their characters.

But I didn't just email it to them, oh no. If I had done that, they would have ignored it. So to make sure that they all would read it, I named it "Campaign Notes-DM Verson.PDF" and uploaded it to the players' folder on our Google Drive. By accident, of course.

I only left it up for a few hours, but that's all it took. Since then, I've seen screenshots of it posted to our private Discord, and I've seen pieces of it being copied-and-pasted into emails.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm not sure it requires defying death on a regular basis, just training your body that "this coming 45 minutes may be the last sleep you get for 18 hours, so get to it." My father in law was never deployed, but he can lean up against a wall and go to sleep, even decades after his military service.

And to be on topic for an off-topic thread, this probably explains why D&D characters are able to do it.

"Great, we have a watch set up. Tomorrow at this time, we may be running for our lives from an army of ghouls, I'd better power sleep now."

Or even "Who knows if we'll get an interruption in the middle of the night?" Which means you'll tend to learn to sleep lightly, but quickly.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Thank you for making sure the last thread not talking about that subject now has a post about it. It would be terrible if we kept the topic to a single thread.

 

[overgeeked]

The person who says “it cannot be done” shouldn’t interrupt the person doing it.

 

[billd91]

Normal Person: How would you know these things?
Way Too Many People: Because I know what lurks in the hearts of (men, designers, corporations, women, anyone who makes decisions or has opinions I don't like, etc). <makes mystical gestures>

 

[Mad_Jack]

I'm sorry, but your posts make my brain hurt...