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Comment by weregiraffe | Hacker News Reader

Shit like this results from a severe misunderstanding of what's enjoyable in a table-top RPG. It's not a fucking video game.

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Agreed, people should only enjoy the features of it that I enjoy the way I like to enjoy them. Enjoying it the wrong way is at best stupid, possibly even evil.

I agree, tabletop RPGs should be 2/3 Role Playing and only 1/3 Game.

This is why I don't play TTRPGs much anymore. If I wanted to really get into character and roleplay my heart out I'd join an improv group...

I liked the crunchy bits of TTRPGs like charting dungeons and running kingdoms and shit. Can't find many groups interested in that anymore

It's why I haven't tried to get back into TTRPGs. I suspect that even if I were to join in on an OSR group that the play style would still be closer to the modern improv group aesthetic.

To me, the role playing, and the crunchy bits, as well as tactics, combat, and other stuff, are all significant and important part of TTRPG; it should not be only one of those things.

In my experience the roleplay heavy groups are very quick to houserule out any of the crunchy rules they don't like, too. So it really is the worst of both worlds for me, I don't get to engage with the game system the way I want to, and I also am expected to roleplay heavily

"I fixed the stupidly complicated tabletop game with an even more complicated piece of software! Now you can be confused and not have to look at human faces while you furiously type away at the computer in order to prove to the DM that the ridiculous loophole that you found in the rules is actually logically consistent"

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