They're not games, more like peer pressure simulator. It's your turn, but DM says you tripped on a rock and miss your turn or something dumb and arbitrary like that, but he can only do that if the other players go along with it.
New ruleset is like Congress passing some new "workers rights" bill - now things are fair, peon's rights, my gripes are important - but really it's the same bullshit as before, you just feel like this time it'll be different.
That made me more interested into what you're on about. So I went and looked and came across several places with stories about dungeon masters. Uh, yeah, the insanity. My brain doesn't work in the way that would be required to play that game or participation event or whatever you want to call it.
Sports are better without umpires, judges, referees, but with objective measures instead. The less subjective the better. That's why they brought in instant replays.
If a ruleset could turn "my character died because I didn't buy the DM lunch" into Baldur's Gate II then that would be great, but they don't.
They're not games, more like peer pressure simulator. It's your turn, but DM says you tripped on a rock and miss your turn or something dumb and arbitrary like that, but he can only do that if the other players go along with it.
New ruleset is like Congress passing some new "workers rights" bill - now things are fair, peon's rights, my gripes are important - but really it's the same bullshit as before, you just feel like this time it'll be different.
That made me more interested into what you're on about. So I went and looked and came across several places with stories about dungeon masters. Uh, yeah, the insanity. My brain doesn't work in the way that would be required to play that game or participation event or whatever you want to call it.
And all umpires are just on power trips. The sport (any of them) would be better without them, AM I RITE?!
Sports are better without umpires, judges, referees, but with objective measures instead. The less subjective the better. That's why they brought in instant replays.
If a ruleset could turn "my character died because I didn't buy the DM lunch" into Baldur's Gate II then that would be great, but they don't.