Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
What D&D cliches are you sick of?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 6438188" data-attributes="member: 10638"><p>My cliche list as a player, GM, editor, and designer:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All-time #1 CLICHE: Bandit encounters. I want to PUKE everytime I see some lame-o "bandit" encounter.</li> </ul><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Obsidian flipping anything (walls, pillars, monoliths, thrones.. ETCETERA)</li> </ul><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Detect evil</li> </ul><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Getting the party to eat human flesh yet again</li> </ul><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guy who hires you then later tries to kill you</li> </ul></li> </ul><p></p><p>I used to have some other cliche's that I had burned out on but have had to just deal with:</p><p>* Dungeon crawls without innovative plots with interesting NPCs/monsters/whatever OUTSIDE of the dungeon (oh, lemme guess, the dungeon is to blame! Why are we standing around? Let's go nuke the cave.) Cave in the front door and move along. You know what item should be in the pHB? <a href="http://youtu.be/7DG-pNt5fus" target="_blank">Dynamite.</a> But what would we do then?</p><p>* Magic for every class as a crutch instead of innovative game design of multiple non-magical classes/careers/backgrounds and a system that encourages something other than a spell/magic to solve any problem or as an excuse to for leveling goodies.</p><p>* Cliche systems: Spells are commonplace and are pretty much a complete replacement for skills</p><p>* Cliche bad scenario design: Scenarios without a "Synopsis of Expected Play"</p><p>* Cliche wasted game design: Space wasted in books for high level and epic play (and spells)..especially in fantasy heartbreakers (or D&D for that matter). </p><p></p><p></p><p>Cliche's that I love? </p><p>* Gnomes, halflings, elves, dwarves</p><p>* big caverns</p><p>* rolling lots of dice all the time</p><p>* watching storytellers battle it out with boardgamers over what percentage should go into an RPG</p><p>* house rules!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>jh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emirikol, post: 6438188, member: 10638"] My cliche list as a player, GM, editor, and designer: [LIST] [LIST] [*]All-time #1 CLICHE: Bandit encounters. I want to PUKE everytime I see some lame-o "bandit" encounter. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Obsidian flipping anything (walls, pillars, monoliths, thrones.. ETCETERA) [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Detect evil [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Getting the party to eat human flesh yet again [/LIST] [LIST] [*]The guy who hires you then later tries to kill you [/LIST] [/LIST] I used to have some other cliche's that I had burned out on but have had to just deal with: * Dungeon crawls without innovative plots with interesting NPCs/monsters/whatever OUTSIDE of the dungeon (oh, lemme guess, the dungeon is to blame! Why are we standing around? Let's go nuke the cave.) Cave in the front door and move along. You know what item should be in the pHB? [URL="http://youtu.be/7DG-pNt5fus"]Dynamite.[/URL] But what would we do then? * Magic for every class as a crutch instead of innovative game design of multiple non-magical classes/careers/backgrounds and a system that encourages something other than a spell/magic to solve any problem or as an excuse to for leveling goodies. * Cliche systems: Spells are commonplace and are pretty much a complete replacement for skills * Cliche bad scenario design: Scenarios without a "Synopsis of Expected Play" * Cliche wasted game design: Space wasted in books for high level and epic play (and spells)..especially in fantasy heartbreakers (or D&D for that matter). Cliche's that I love? * Gnomes, halflings, elves, dwarves * big caverns * rolling lots of dice all the time * watching storytellers battle it out with boardgamers over what percentage should go into an RPG * house rules! jh [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
What D&D cliches are you sick of?
Top
