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Thread: In praise of simple DMing.
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2022-12-02, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
Well, I could have said "Sometimes you're in the mood for [subcategory A of a given set of experiences] and sometimes you're in the mood for [related but distinct subcategory B of the same set of experiences]."
But it's not as pithy. Feel free to adjust the nouns inside the brackets to taste.(Avatar by Cuthalion, who is great.)
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2022-12-02, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-12-02, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
Well, there are subcategories of both food and rpg that I am always uninterested in. Pointless hack & slash combat and cheap greasy food being among them. Part of why the wargame minis scene never pulled at me even though I have probably a couple armies wirth of assorted minis I've done.
'Simple' to me means something like Paranoia, one of the one page games, or Mork Borg. Nothing to break, nothing to screw up, just lran into "what's funny" to run & fun it.
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2022-12-04, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
I try to include some of this in each session, even when there is a major story arc. As I said in my "Rules for DS":
32. There should be encounters that have nothing to do with the main quest, or there is no world – just a party and a quest.
a. Yes, the quest is your focus. But set it in a complex world, much bigger than the quest.
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2022-12-04, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-12-09, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-12-10, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
The golden age of my 5e time was when I was playing in a traditional world-building campaign on Thursdays and then playing or DMing Adventurer's League one-shots on Mondays. Was a perfect blend of "serious" 5e to stretch the roleplaying chops and then beer & pretzels dice-rollin' with a little RP to join the combats together each week.
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2022-12-11, 08:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
Sometimes a good old-fashioned Hack and Slash can be fun.
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2022-12-12, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: In praise of simple DMing.
Well, I could have also said. "Some percentage of the time, some percentage of people are interested in one subcategory of an experience, and (allowing for overlapping data sets) some other percentage of the time, some other percentage of people are interested in another subcategory of an experience (plus or minus X amount of oversimplification and Y amount of overlap)."
But the overall point is, I believe, reasonably clear: various people are able to draw various kinds of enjoyment from various configurations of an activity at various times. And the fact that you, specifically, will never draw enjoyment from a given configuration, doesn't invalidate either their enjoyment or that configuration.
Similarly, your definition of 'simple' may be useful (even accurate) but it is not definitive.(Avatar by Cuthalion, who is great.)