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

[Belen]

"Wrong" is a spectrum.

My argument is twofold.

1) If you're playing D&D and you aren't embracing cosmopolitan diversity, a central point of the game for the past 25 years, you're doing something wrong. If you think a setting should only have a few races, then the OSR is probably a better for you. This is a specific corollary to a more general principle: *Play the game that's in front of you, don't break the game to fit your preferences."

2) If you're putting months of solo setting building as a higher priority than the needs of your group of players, you're not embracing the heart of TTRPGs, which is "colloboration".

Your cosmopolitan ideal is a preference.

This comes off as “we do not want your bad/wrong ideas in our community. Go play a different game because we’re better than you.”

 

[Scribe]

I don't believe it be so.

If you don't like posts with uncaveated opinions that make specific judgments about playstyles, then TwoSix in '26 may not be the right poster for you. Let me know if you need assistance finding the block or ignore functionalities available to you.

All good, I probably have the largest ignore list on the forum.

I'll permit you to remain visible, maybe you'll come around to the correct answer that my world building efforts matter more than some rando's desire to play a Dragonborn.

 

[soviet]

If somebody wants to play a particular aspect as a class or a race but can't tell you why they wanna play that class or race either: They're not being honest or they really don't know why they're so steadfast on it and shouldn't be so steadfast on it.

Honestly, if you wanna play something and you can't describe or say why you shouldn't play something.And you're not willing to show any leeway, then you should leave the table..


Unless they are like a child and they get a pass for being irrational

Wait, when did the player in this hypothetical refuse to explain and become an irrational child? If that's the sort of people you play with then I get it, I guess. But bad gaming is worse than no gaming.

 

[TwoSix]

Hooboy. I think I'm about done for this thread.

Remember that it's New Years, and you shouldn't break your resolutions until at least the third week of January.

It was 1_ "if you play a tabaxi in a world where sentient felines are feared, loathed and treated as evil beings, your tabaxi is likely to end up being lynched," and instead of accepting the argument,

Weird. That sounds like the general hook for tieflings, one of the most common races in modern D&D.

 

[soviet]

TwoSix in '26

Are you running for office? I am so in, albeit I am almost certainly not in your jurisdiction.

 

[Minigiant]

Wait, when did the player in this hypothetical refuse to explain and become an irrational child? If that's the sort of people you play with then I get it, I guess. But bad gaming is worse than no gaming.

The hypothetical player mentioned say "No I want X". When I ask posters if the player was asked or can describe why they want X, they say no.

Such a person is extremely rare but irrational.

 

[TwoSix]

All good, I probably have the largest ignore list on the forum.

I'll permit you to remain visible, maybe you'll come around to the correct answer that my world building efforts matter more than some rando's desire to play a Dragonborn.

That "rando" is one of your players.

 

[Scribe]

That "rando" is one of your players.

Not if they cannot interact with the setting as designed they arent.

 

[TwoSix]

Your cosmopolitan ideal is a preference.

This comes off as “we do not want your bad/wrong ideas in our community. Go play a different game because we’re better than you.”

Having better ideas doesn't make me better than you, not in some "how do we value other people" calculation. It just means I have better ideas.

 

[TiQuinn]

This entire flustercluck of a thread has demonstrated to me that yes, today's players want videogamey "I wanna be a dragonborn princess and start at level 1 with a +5 vorpal sword" stuff that frankly, doesn't work for me. Maybe it works for someone else. Whatever brings you the endorphins and dopamine.

I agree in that I think more players today want that than the alternative.