Recent content by soviet

A thought occurs to me. If we play out a series of imaginary events, and recounting those events after the fact constitutes telling a story, doesn't that mean that our play created that story?

To be fair I have never actually seen, or even heard of, any of the films you listed :)

Does the telling of it have to be to someone else? Does quietly remembering it afterwards make it a story?

Is a travelogue not also a story?

Did the defenders never make attack rolls because they weren't strikers?

Yep. It's wilful misinterpretation. It's completely unsupported by the text. One might as well punch the other players and say 'what? it says here I'm a fighter'.

The Handmaid's Tale. I'd seen the first three seasons before and then dropped off, so I'm starting again and I'm nearly at the end of season 3 and about to hit new stuff. Man it's bleak and powerful, although season 3 isn't as good as 1 and 2. (Which is why I dropped off, I guess.) What's...

I would rather wither away and die of sadness like Yoda

Wait, I realise the disconnect now. I wasn't saying that a module as a published artefact is a story*. I was saying that [playing] a module can be 'playing through a [pre-cooked] story' in the same way that playing a video game is. * Not saying it isn't either

Doesn't all of that apply to a video game?

That is never going to work dude, the glasses would have been much more effective

The great thing about Jared Leto's acting is

I don't think all RPG experiences are the same in this regard. It seems to me that you are talking about 'story now' versus 'story before'. I think you can absolutely 'play through' a story in a TTRPG in a similar way to a video game. This is exactly what modules are.

I don't even let the players rest. 'Now what? An owlbear attacks you, what do you do? Put down your phone! Look at me! [strikes player] You take seven damage! The owlbear goes to eat your sandwiches! [strikes player] Stop crying! No eating! Attack! Block! Attack! Block!'. Games should be an...

You may be aware but there's a format called Premodern that has absolutely blown up in popularity over the last year or so, precisely because it offers a refuge from WotC's short termist and exploitative business practices. Premodern is all cards printed between 4th edition and Scourge (so 1995...