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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5396340" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>LOTR is perhaps a bad example because it does suffer from an over abundance of description. Great as a novel, probably not as much fun as an RPG (as DM of the Rings so funnily points out). But, I do disagree that you can't play D&D in character most of the time. </p><p></p><p>It requires a fair degree of player buy in at the outset and at the very least a tacit agreement that you aren't going to be deliberately disruptive of that, but, it's certainly not impossible. Granted, it's probably not the norm at the majority of tables, and it isn't the norm at mine either. We're not the amateur thespian bunch at all (my last campaign ended with the players covering a small planet with the scrotum of a giant invisible whale - my games tend to have a bit of nonsense in them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). </p><p></p><p>But, by the same token, as I said earlier, a player can make or break a scene. Trying to do something like horror is virtually impossible if the players don't buy into the idea that you're trying to create a particular mood. A sign of a good player is recognizing when the DM is trying to go for a particular mood (or not) and being able to work with the DM rather than against him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5396340, member: 22779"] LOTR is perhaps a bad example because it does suffer from an over abundance of description. Great as a novel, probably not as much fun as an RPG (as DM of the Rings so funnily points out). But, I do disagree that you can't play D&D in character most of the time. It requires a fair degree of player buy in at the outset and at the very least a tacit agreement that you aren't going to be deliberately disruptive of that, but, it's certainly not impossible. Granted, it's probably not the norm at the majority of tables, and it isn't the norm at mine either. We're not the amateur thespian bunch at all (my last campaign ended with the players covering a small planet with the scrotum of a giant invisible whale - my games tend to have a bit of nonsense in them :D ). But, by the same token, as I said earlier, a player can make or break a scene. Trying to do something like horror is virtually impossible if the players don't buy into the idea that you're trying to create a particular mood. A sign of a good player is recognizing when the DM is trying to go for a particular mood (or not) and being able to work with the DM rather than against him. [/QUOTE]
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