D&D General What do you like to do in playing D&D

[Charlaquin]

Nearly all of the above. Left out some of the domain management type stuff.

 

[Voadam]

Immersive play. So first person roleplaying, exploring things up close, rich descriptions. I like dealing with politics and investigating and exploring things. I like player skill activities, it feels immersive for me.

Not really hexcrawling though, more immediate explorations.

I like D&D combat, it is often a fun D&D activity for me.

Traps can be OK, depending on how they are handled. I like stuff that fits the story and can be player skilled around or that can be part of a combat. I really dislike hidden save or die such as B/X or AD&D poison stuff.

I do not really want to do fiddly little things like shopping or crafting or running a business or domain. I am fine with running stuff like a keep or merchant empire as part of a character, but I do not want to deal with the minutiae. I don't really care about treasure anymore, I mostly go for story achievement stuff.

 

[Shardstone]

Missing "See weird or novel things"

Im not having fun if its all generic or reused ideas.

 

[jmartkdr2]

Nearly any of these; even the one I didn't vote for could be fun I just haven't seen them handled well very often.

A general theme though is: I want to see my character grow and become someone special; there's just a lot of ways to do this.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Didn't pick dungeons, traps, exploring/travel planar travel and immortality.

I also didn't pick fighting monsters but did pick hunting monsters for sport as I really prefer 'fighting' against people who really deserve it just in terms of motivation.

 

[Reynard]

Missing "See weird or novel things"

Im not having fun if its all generic or reused ideas.

I added "Discovering the strange, novel and/or fantastical."

 

[Stormonu]

Being a badass - more than just fighting monsters, but those moments where you character really gets to show off how they're really extraordinary - whether its taking down 12 giants in a single blow or talking the evil annis into leaving town without having to draw a weapon to casting a spell that sweeps the party up from the local town to the dungeon's entrance with a single word.

Being someone you're not - my life is pretty mundane and boring. Getting into being my gruff, half-orc mercenary fighter who donates his coin to the local orphanage between adventures is fun for getting to explore who that character is and what their life is like - in an out of the dungeon.

Everything else is pretty much "in moderation". Like, I don't mind puzzling out how to avoid a trap, but a trap-filled dungeon with nothing to straight-up fight would probably bore me. Conversely, a dungeon that was nothing but "break the door down and fight what's on the other side" would be just as bad. Or always being stuck in a dungeon.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Seducing monsters.

 

[Reynard]

Seducing monsters.

Should I just add "Tingling" to the list?

 

[Reynard]

Being a badass - more than just fighting monsters, but those moments where you character really gets to show off how they're really extraordinary - whether its taking down 12 giants in a single blow or talking the evil annis into leaving town without having to draw a weapon to casting a spell that sweeps the party up from the local town to the dungeon's entrance with a single word.

Being someone you're not - my life is pretty mundane and boring. Getting into being my gruff, half-orc mercenary fighter who donates his coin to the local orphanage between adventures is fun for getting to explore who that character is and what their life is like - in an out of the dungeon.

I think these are both essentially meta things.