Winnah wrote:Way to miss the fucking point.
what fucking point? the article said nothing up until then, except that it was going to do something stupid yet again. those unsocial idiots that insist on playing a social game need to be babysat with some sort of mechanics.
to you paladin analogy.. guess what. D&D is a class-archetype based game. if you dont want to play a game with the archetypes presented.. then fnd another fucking game? what are people so insistent on trying to change it to something else, rather than taking their lazy fucking ass to play something else instead?
if you dont want to play a game where one man is king and the players are all his servants to maintain the lands, then don't fucking play a game in Camelot.
fuckmooks that keep thinking D&D is something else, need to have better education, cause their schooling is surly fucking lacking.
4th edition tried to throw out D&D and call something else D&D...it didn't fucking work.
si the article is saying that roleplaying grants some temp bonus like those DC mods from other WotC attempts at D&D? isnt playing your reward for roleplaying? in some cases you get some bonus XP in order to.. oh nevermind, XP doesn't mean anything anymore since it is handwaived by DMs cause WotC thinks tracking XP isnt fun and everyone levels at the same rate anyway.
like i sid in the other thread, D&D is long since dead, and who knows what the fuck is wearing its skin now, but it is surely made for people who never understood D&D.
as for alignments. see the thread i made a while back explaining where Gary fucked that up and how to fix it. the majority of people still dont get that the 9 alignment system will NEVER work, but a paladin CAN work as being
Lawful,
Good because
Lawful good can NEVER exist.
but you choose a paladin then you get a paladin warts and all. if you didnt want to play a paladin, then you should have fucking chose something else. D&D isnt your momma's teets to suckle on and made only for you and the rest of the neighborhood kids and adults that she enjoys feeding.
YOU can do whatever in YOUR game, but that doesn't make it right for THE game of D&D which is classes created on archetypes. you want a TTMMO with its roles, 4th edition is the failed attempt proving that such cannot work. or you could go to pathfinder for its anime MMO based design.
D&D is no longer an RPG but simply a fantasy world simulator
is that what the article says? does Mearls not understand that that is what an RPG (not Rocket Propelled Grenade) is, a fantasy world simulator? that is exactly the fuck what an RPG is be it jRPG, cRPG, TTRPG, etc.
does he fucking think D&D is some sort of board game or something? has this dumbfuck taken his medication before writing this article?
D&D offers combat rules to make things fair, for a fantasy world simulator. thus why ship-ship, aerial combat, and mass combat doesn't work in it, because it simulates a small group going through the simulated world.
WTF!
oh i love the next line after that part, it is comedy gold!
It doesn't take much to make that work
then why can WotC never make it work after 16 years of owning D&D?
Gary Gygax wrote:The secret we must not let them know is that they don't need to buy books from us to play.
roleplaying is possible in OD&D, just not thespianism at Gary's table.
there is no rules for roleplaying nor mechanics for it in most MMOs, and yet people have been doing it even on PvP servers on Everquest, because to play in the fantasy world simulation, you only need combat interaction rules as everything is IS roleplaying!
they need to send Mearls back to Arkham, because DDN is going to fail quicker than 4th ever did!