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

[soviet]

Makes sense. I mean, why rewrite the Constitution when I can just say "L'etat, c'est moi!"

Same principle can definitely apply to my DMing.

Wait, is Two Six the new Six Seven????

 

[Scribe]

No to @TwoSix .

Yes, and that's fine. With some clarification I see now that hes just bluntly expressing his opinion without attempting to cushion it as one normally would in online discussion.

Which is fine. I can and did do the same. "No, its false." The 'to me' being implied and the same behavior hes going for.

Which is fine, it will all end in moderation eventually.

 

[AlViking]

Why are you playing with 'some rando' in the first place?

Have you never moved? Had players drop out because they moved or had a kid or some other reason? Randos are just potential friends I don't know yet.

 

[TwoSix]

I am not going to run the exact same paint-by-numbers campaign for life because someone decides that D&D can only be one style of game.

Please don't run the same game for life. That's even worse. Run lots of games, in lots of systems. Make more friends and play with them too. Just always remember the center of the game is the table, not the setting notes. Kumbaya!

 

[Umbran]

I assume he is just trolling.

Mod Note:
If you feel someone is trolling, you should report them, and disengage.
Actively bad-mouthing them in-thread isn't being better than a troll, so please don't.

 

[TwoSix]

Wait, is Two Six the new Six Seven????

If we can make it a meme for all toddlers and people who write 200 page setting bibles, I'm all in.

 

[soviet]

Have you never moved? Had players drop out because they moved or had a kid or some other reason? Randos are just potential friends I don't know yet.

Even then it wouldn't be 'some rando'. It would be someone I already knew, or at least that someone else in the group knew or could vouch for. Our group has been pretty static for 25 years.

If I am playing an RPG with someone then by definition they are someone whose ideas I am interested in trying to work with.

 

[TwoSix]

Yes, and that's fine. With some clarification I see now that hes just bluntly expressing his opinion without attempting to cushion it as one normally would in online discussion.

Which is fine. I can and did do the same. "No, its false." The 'to me' being implied and the same behavior hes going for.

Which is fine, it will all end in moderation eventually.

Exactly. I've been actively conciliatory on this board for decades now. I'm just taking a little break from couching all of my thoughts in digestible platitudes.

 

[mamba]

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.

I agree in general, but in this discussion I assume that is because everyone insisting that not allowing a tortle is bad DMing is not really all that interested in playing one in the first place, so they draw a blank.

In a real scenario I sure hope they would have better reasons than what they have presented here. They still might walk if they have to compromise, that is ok. I see their inability to compromise as at least as much of a red flag as they see the DM’s unwillingness to simply allow a tortle anyway.

 

[Maxperson]

My 'introduction to D&D' path starts in Warcraft 3. So you can imagine the shock when I come over the D&D side and people say "Orcs aren't playable. They're always evil" as a setting feature when I've come from basically the trend setter for 'yeah orcs can be good, its the individual people who are good or evil'. Anything that tries to make orcs always evil is going to sit poor with me and, well, you know my views on alignment to begin with.

There's a Warcraft game to play and D&D isn't Warcraft. I gather you're a die hard horde player. I'm the same way with alliance.

You're free to hold your opinions of orcs in D&D, but it's not the popular opinion or how D&D has been constructed for the overwhelming amount of time that it has been around. D&D has been around for 52 years, and of that time, 15 months of it has had orcs as a PHB race.

I can understand not wanting to play in a D&D game if you can't be an orc, but using the denial of playing an orc as some sort of huge red flag indicator about the DM is....................excessive and likely to be wrong.