That may be true, but that article is still laughable. Throughout the entire time it sounds like he is blaming D&D for making Tabletop RPGs be related to dorkiness.
I wonder if he knows people act just as bad if not worse for things like White Wolf?
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That may be true, but that article is still laughable. Throughout the entire time it sounds like he is blaming D&D for making Tabletop RPGs be related to dorkiness.
I wonder if he knows people act just as bad if not worse for things like White Wolf?
I stopped there.Quote:
Originally Posted by article
There is so much of that article I could respond to (and destroy) but it's not even worth it.
Basically it's just: lol, nerds.
'sup loss of paladin powers. A LG deity won't turn a blind eye to murdering them in their sleep just 'cuz they're gobbos, at least not if your DM is halfway competent. I guess you can get away with it if you don't have a pally and your cleric/healer is neither good nor lawful, though.Quote:
Here's the narrative arithmetic that Gygax came up with: You come across a family of sleeping orcs, huddled around their overflowing chest of gold coins and magical weapons. [..] You can let sleeping orcs lie and get on with the task at hand—saving a damsel, recovering some ancient scepter, whatever. Or you can start slitting throats—after all, mercy doesn't have an experience point value in D&D. It's the kind of atrocity that commits itself.
Jockeying for position on the nerd hierarchy = laffo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
IAWTP. If you're a nerd, you're a nerd. None of us are any better or worse than the others.
Except furries and LARPers, they can fuck off.
It's a GURPS nerd whinging about D&D. A fued more ridiculous than Wars vs. Trek, more futile than ninjas vs. pirates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kidnemo
whatev, doesn't he just roll to become a lich?
I used to strike a balance between what Dolemite described (following the rules to the T) and Animegirl's approach (just making up a number). I was such a rules lawyer, though, that I could recall all that shit on the fly...ah, D&D.
I am trying to get a group together in Philly right now.
I found an approach in which I demand complete rules obedience from the players, but hid all my rolls so that I can break in their favor at my discretion works best. The plebs started to think that it was luck that saw them through and not my benevolence. Fools!