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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3988363" data-attributes="member: 3887">Blood Meridian: D20 would be hilarious. Most people are shackled by their imaginations. The rest are artists, and look how happy they usually are.   I think it is. D&D, and RPG's in general, are sorta special not becuase they're interactive, but because their composition is inherently fluid. One minute they're a tactical wargame, the next they're a riddle contest, later still they're improv theater whose scenes runs from the ridiculous to the --occasionally-- sublime. They are many kinds of entertainment masquerading as one outwardly silly-seeming one. The trick, of course, is engendering enough player investment in the game so as to make that kind of of higher-than-lowest-common-denominator play possible. I've done in the past, and sporadically in the present, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how outside of the personal chemistry between me and my players.</blockquote>