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Grand DM
@Grand_DM
Big ideas. Gaming outside the box. Walnut and Steel. Past and Present. Distinguished Ruffian. Plus Ultra.
Katılım Ağustos 2012
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@KainYusanagi @ChubbyFunsterGC My best example is that running your own adventure notes is like cooking from memory, while publishing an adventure is like writing a cookbook for strangers.
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@Grand_DM @ChubbyFunsterGC Why couldn't you just give a single example?
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When I criticize modules in my YT videos for being hard for the GM to execute, for being poor references at the table, for having huge "read-all-this-first" sections in order for the content to make sense; I get told that I just don't appreciate the joy of reading.
Mike Mearls@mikemearls
When you design a TTRPG, you are really designing a scenario structure that you expect someone else to execute on. That someone could be a designer or a GM. In either case, if they can't easily create scenarios your game has failed.
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One of the first things we have realized about playing second edition dnd lately (I'm not running it, I play) is that you have to approach it differently than you approach 5e. Fights have actual stakes. No short rest and heal bullshit. No long rest and max HP bullshit.
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I've learned throughout the years that social skills matter way more at a game table than understanding the rules.
I prefer dealing with a handful of "newbie" rule questions than someone with poor hygiene, spends too much time "optimizing" their turn, or whines a lot.
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Things that felt completely self evident in my head because I wrote it.
A product is very different from GM notes, but a surprising amount of published material still relies on the GM to bridge critical gaps at the table under the umbrella of “make it your own” or GM fiat. But hey, YMMV.
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My early con games had multiple GMs walk over mid session asking questions about things I had mentally filled in but never actually put on the page. It was eye opening.
That’s when I realized there’s a huge difference between writing something you can run and writing something other people can run consistently.
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@Grand_DM Extrapolate on that a bit. I'm intrigued to learn about your personal experience in this
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Modern Dungeons & Dragons art: a diverse group of persons enjoying artisanal soup in a well lit tavern after overcoming the tragedy of burning the cookies they were baking.
SciFi Art@retroscifiart
Early Dungeons & Dragons
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@d20play @ScythianB International Federation of Recreational Polyhedral Gladiators.
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This is missing a few key points. The IFRPG took over the D&D world championship in 2017.
Here you see steady increase in interest
WBW, bad play test, Spell Jammer, and finally 5.5 (and the announcement that the IFRPG was discontinuing it's partnership with WotC) stagnated growth.
Thomas Christy@d20play
D&D Popularity: Make a solid new version, 6E. Make great adventures. See popularity grow again like from 2017-2023. I think Stranger Things and Critical Role are falsely credited. Don't chase pop culture tie-ins that cheapen your product. (do allow pop culture to reference YOU).
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@GrampsToolshed He seems to often be on the offensive toward anything done in a perceived “older style” and frequently tosses around “grognard” as a pejorative for it.
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Wait wut????
I've been playing in the same group since junior high.
We've had a number of different campaigns last close to or over a decade.
2 years is more like a trial run.
J. Scott Garibay 🧢🐲🚲🇺🇦@jsgaribay
No D&D campaign today should be over 2 years long. If you go longer than that I don't want advice on how you did it. I want to give you advice on being aware that no one at your table is changing, growing or being challenged. This isn't the '80s.
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@the_frog_mage This is going to be the new Mr. Johnson in my Shadowrun 2E campaign, the Orb Rider.
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@AutoMagArchive The pictures look like they were taken in 1984 also...
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@DanielDnDYT Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that subs normalize endless spending while ownership slowly disappears.
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Honestly, this is just the way of things.
Physical media had only one advantage to either side of the transaction: it exists only in one space. For the buyer one you have it, you have it. For the seller, once it's damaged, a replacement must be purchased.
But this is another losing issue for the purist. We want physical media, but the public at large, and thus the market, wants cheap, durable, easy, and immediate. That means digital.
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I think books are absolutely going to become prestige items. Expensive enough that $5-10 a month starts to feel like the smarter deal. Then a couple years pass, you’ve spent far more than the books ever cost, and FOMO’d yourself into buying a mountain of digital assets you don’t actually own.
dungeoncraft@dungeoncraft
D&D is becoming a subscription service. WoTC rejects union. youtu.be/Sqlz5I8ma30?si… via @YouTube
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@CorpseKings I like when they actually fly...it was nice knowing you.
Artist: John-Paul Balmet
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My take on the OG Owlbear. Do we prefer the oldschool design or the one 5e uses? 🦉
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@Nobleshield Early RPG books weren’t competing with YouTube tutorials, wikis, Reddit threads, Discord rulings channels, actual plays, or searchable PDFs. The rulebook had to teach not just the rules, but kind of the culture and philosophy of the hobby itself.
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@Grand_DM I suppose a lot of this is a product of the times, since RPGs were still a "new" thing.
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Early RPG books were trying to teach referee philosophy, not just deliver rules efficiently. Modern readers want the executable sentence immediately.
Nobleshield@Nobleshield
Why was Gary like this? An entire paragraph of waffling on, when he could have simply stated: "If the party is much higher level than the monsters, reduce the XP accordingly."
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@DieinPlace Yes, I think a lot of people miss that fantasy and myth were never meant to function like sociology textbooks.
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This opens the door for almost anything becoming problematic and needing to be retconned. It is a continuation of the postmodern assault on heroism and heroic narratives and a projection of real-world grievances into a world meant to take you away from all that. In my mind, this is the same mentality driving the Orcs aren't evil and much of the "there should be no alignment" thinking in supposedly heroic games, though perhaps at different levels of absurdity.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
Once you are making apologies on behalf of fictional characters or races, you've pulled the plug on your brain, and it's off life support. This quote is from WotC about the Hadozee, a species of winged monkey pirates. Someone decided that the Hadozee backstory is "racist" evidently. I don't know much about the Hadozee but I do know imbecility when I see it.
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@Gingerblast I think former players probably think of a vibe when they reminisce, not always an edition. The latter is the Battleground for those who still play, whatever the iteration.
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This shouldn't be surprising. The question becomes "Is D&D a broad category of fantasy roleplaying or is it a specific game outlined by Gygax?"
I favor the narrow definition because I don't think it's an insult to say that a game is not D&D. Castles and Crusades, Shadowdark, Tunnels and Trolls, and Hordewars are not D&D, but they're respectable games of the genre.
Mike Mearls@mikemearls
I can 100% vouch for the results of this survey. When I worked on D&D, we saw this in every study we did of the general population. People who claimed they played D&D described a game that looked nothing like what was in the rulebooks. troypress.com/dd-rules-accor…
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