The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread
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CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Sometimes I read these threads about "fixing" stuff in the game, and I wonder if I'm actually playing the same game. If I am, I'm clearly doing it wrong. Somehow.
Bob: So you know how every player multiclasses with paladin so that they can spam the Geas spell every round of every battle?
Joe: Oh yes constantly, my players 1000% do that all the time and it ruins the fun for everyone. I've literally never had a character that didn't dip seventeen levels of paladin so that they could immediately start spamming Geas in every battle. And I've been playing for three thousand years.
Bob: Yes exactly. Here's my easy, lightweight, eighty-five step plan on how you absolutely must fix this problem that everyone clearly has.
Me: ...what?
Bob: So you know how every player multiclasses with paladin so that they can spam the Geas spell every round of every battle?
Joe: Oh yes constantly, my players 1000% do that all the time and it ruins the fun for everyone. I've literally never had a character that didn't dip seventeen levels of paladin so that they could immediately start spamming Geas in every battle. And I've been playing for three thousand years.
Bob: Yes exactly. Here's my easy, lightweight, eighty-five step plan on how you absolutely must fix this problem that everyone clearly has.
Me: ...what?
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Different people have different preferences and want the game they play to support their preferences. It’s only the “one game system to do it all” mindset that causes a problem.
Ryujin
Legend
My group had made a mistake in how we were doing combat in TORG, for example. We found that we preferred our way to the actual rules, when we realized it, and just kept playing as before. It was a long time ago, but I think it was something about the damage cap. Worked both for and against us.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Exactly. All games are toolkits. Make the game yours. Use what you like, modify it as needed to suit your table, and ignore the rest. I will never understand the ”the RAW, the whole RAW, and nothing but the RAW” mindset.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
It's mostly the tone of those threads that cracks me up.
Yes, it's true that different people have different preferences, and they want the game to support those preferences. But when they write the thread, they forget they are discussing personal preferences, and start talking in ultimatums and maxims. It's no longer something that a single person would like to see; it is now a problem that everyone has, and it must be fixed (or, we must play something else).
Ryujin
Legend
I find that the people who argue that are generally Rules Lawyers™ who will then go on to claim a very specific interpretation of RAW, that may or may not make any real sense.
IMNSHO, it's the people that absolutely refuse to stop proselytizing their preferences that are the bigger problem.
Like, we all heard you*, dude. Just because someone stated a different preference doesn't mean you have to explain yours again. It's okay to just shut up after you've shared your opinion. Seriously, we get it. You are heard. Just, like, please go away now. I even agree with you; please don't make me put you on ignore.
*Not you. The general you.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Everyone thinks their thoughts, feelings, views, and preferences as the good, right, just, and smart things. It’s just human nature. The whole “you didn’t preface your comment with ‘in my opinion,’ therefore you must think your opinion is fact” thing is a really bizarre form of tone policing.
Ryujin
Legend
Yeah, that's a comment I've made before. Of course it's "in my opinion." Who else's opinion would I be stating?
But, then again, on rare occasions people state their opinion as inviolable fact.
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