D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

[Micah Sweet]

No matter how many times anyone says, "Well if you want to play something, run it!", it never becomes even the tiniest bit more relevant.

Running a game isn't playing in a game. It never will be. It is literally the very core of your argument that running a game is radically different from playing in one, isn't it? So by your own lights, how can it be even remotely useful to tell someone "well if you want to play something, run that thing"? You're literally telling them to NOT play the thing they want to play!

What I'm saying is, if their GM doesn't want to run their game, they can't force them. So your other options are find another GM, be another GM, or drop it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Then perhaps you should consider the hypothetical when several other people are telling you that your experience is not as universal as you believe it to be. That having a player host, rather than the GM, can in fact be an established pattern.

In other words...considering that the question is actually worth answering on its own merits, rather than doing, for what would be a third time, "I don't believe that happens, so I reject the hypothetical and will not consider it." Which is what you've done here, again.


I'm willing to run things I hadn't considered and to be sold on things I had not originally planned.


You're refusing to respond to my hypothetical. Again. Because that is now an established pattern. Three out of three.

I responded to your hypothetical by taking it seriously. I then gave you one of my own. It would be cool to actually take seriously the things I've proposed.


You've misconstrued what I said. I was saying anyone specific player, and that that is simply "entirely possible"--not even remotely guaranteed. But it's much easier to defeat a position I never took, that goes for ridiculous extremes, rather than responding to what I've said, isn't it? I swear there's a term for that. Haybloking? Silagepersoning? I swear, it's on the tip of my tongue!


And for those three players, they're now just F'd. They literally don't get to play.

Because that? That is my experience. And if you can argue that your experience is an absolute universal, so the hell can I.

They choose not to play because their GM doesn't want to run the game they want to play, and they're unwilling to look into alternatives (or in your case I suppose, they're just very unlucky). Everyone, GMs and players alike, get to decide what they're willing to play or run.

 

[AlViking]

They choose not to play because their GM doesn't want to run the game they want to play, and they're unwilling to look into alternatives (or in your case I suppose, they're just very unlucky). Everyone, GMs and players alike, get to decide what they're willing to play or run.

There's also no real solution. Millions of people are happy playing D&D or a variation but you can't please everyone. It sucks if you can't find a group playing a game you enjoy but that's one of the reason there are so many options. It sucks that I don't want to gather round, drink beer and watch "the big game". Life would have been a lot easier if I were. But I'm not going to change, other people aren't going to change so I don't go on forums dedicated to those activities and complain about it I'm just going to accept I don't fit in and find things I do enjoy. I get venting now and then, but after a while it's healthier to move on.

*It's really just that I don't drink much any more.