Recent content by GobHag

The defining advice for War is to play at the world, for Combat it's the Challenge Rating, for Theatrical it's to shoot the monk

I would also like to suggest that thinking that CaT has to reveal characterization or show thematic element is a mistake, the other meaning of theatrical is 'exaggerated actions/movements'--That's why while I understand Combat As Performance is seen as derogatory, because those that devised that...

I also believe that CaT can be something that's divorced from the fiction, while the term Combat as Performance is seen as negative I think it's more accurate; Combat exists solely so that you can push buttons and roll some damage, like putting dozens of fire weak enemies just so that the wizard...

IMO that isn't an important part, like how CaW is about the deadliness of combat and diegetically using the things in the world to reach one's goals while CaS is about 'pornography' and deliberate mechanical balancing

In CaT, the son 2 more charges of Smite but no Heals in the fight with his dad because he just fought his uncle. Fight's gonna be short unless something else he set up extends it because it's more dramatic.

Both are still theatre is my point, I should know because I do both--sometimes a fight is just meant to make the players feel good(shoot the monk, flamethrowers against the Fire resistance barbarian, etc, etc) sometimes they're fighting a big villain. Is 5e not sport just because it has per day...

And the most important element for them both is the character expression anyhow--Killing your dad ontop of the crubling castle you once lived not being called theatrical just because it has context outside of the fight is worthless categorisation.

Yeah I'm gonna lump that into theatre too. Especially because the most inspirational type of genre--battle shonen-- for Combat as Theatre do both anyhow.

Clearly you don't know about Pathfinder 2e enough, we even have a class that's about being burly and tough that isn't a fighter while still having Fighter be durable.

It is the point to be entitled yes, I don't consider this anything wrong though.

They'd be considered quite rude unless one of them chooses to have different specialities.

Wrong inspiration, action movie isn't the way to do it. Video games are a much more closer imagery in people's head when they think of this 'golf bag' strategy.

And? What's the threat here if I do silo other people? What are the consequences that would prevent me from doing so?

So it's wrong to categorize experiences and preferences? If that was any kind of issue then the OSR movement wouldn't have existed. Neotrad culture is grouping of playstyles where the thing that matters most is fulfilling the character fantasy that the player chose, usually through plot and...

Communities exist, marketing exists, audiences exist. Complete atomization is no different than complete homogeneity and wouldn't have lead to the creation of other type of games than houseruled DnD from ever existing.