D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nobody cares that you just broke up with your parasocial boyfriend or whatever.

Mod Note:

Stirring things up like this is not helpful. Don’t do it again.

 

[Sulicius]

Edit- nevermind

 

[Minigiant]

Considering the vast majority of supposed 'new fans' have little to no exposure to those other settings, this seems nonsensical.

Unless the only way D&D is D&D is if its a kitchen sink, which is...ok I guess, but a bit of a narrow and limited view.

You don't need experience with a lot of settings to be disinterested with being forced to play only humans or only nonmagical fighters.

 

[Scribe]

You don't need experience with a lot of settings to be disinterested with being forced to play only humans or only nonmagical fighters.

Which are...none of the D&D settings?

 

[The-Magic-Sword]

I’m talking about story always coming first, and only worrying about creature stat blocks, or any other rule, in that context. So a lot of the concerns cited in the original argue stop being concerns. I’m not sure what you mean about “our” mutual understanding of the story. Yours and mine?

As long as my players and I are on the same page, it’s all good. I do not have players who worry about why the guard rolls 2d8 for longsword damage, or whatever. If I’m a player, I don’t worry about that either. I only worry if things stop making narrative sense.

I wouldn’t play with players who got fussy about stuff like that. I don’t think they’d be very fun.

I think what I'm wondering is, how strong do we understand a guard captain to be in the story? What kind of villain is he? How hard is he to deal woth, and for who?

As you're presenting it, I'm wondering how the emphasis on story is involved-- how strong a character is, that is who they win and lose to, are themselves diegetic elements of the narrative.

I suppose what I'm pointing out is the original here is also emphasizing narrative, they're really questioning what genre conceits a DND story uses in the context if the new statblocks .

 

[Minigiant]

Which are...none of the D&D settings?

Sure.

But the discussion is on DMs creating personal settings that have ultra-narrow themes that might lock out types of PCs from creation.

 

[Scribe]

Sure.

But the discussion is on DMs creating personal settings that have ultra-narrow themes that might lock out types of PCs from creation.

No, the discussion was around a few, or even ANY kind of restriction that could somehow make it so players seemingly have no options, despite hundreds if not thousands of combinations still being available.

The goalpost shifting and strawmaning is out of control.