TableTop RolePlaying Games, salty
I get super frustrated with people who think that D&D is some kind of grand story-telling game, and that all RPGs are like D&D.
Because it's not a storytelling game. It's a combat simulator, with some light storytelling elements.
...I wonder how many people have been pushed away from storytelling games by their first experience with them being a crunchy combat game...
TableTop RolePlaying Games, salty
also I've heard lots of D&D DMs say something like "oh, but you can customise the rules and the DM can make it as story-telling as they want"
And.... that's not really true. If I invited you to D&D, and you came over and found out we were playing a diceless game where the story was based around budding romance in a countryside post office, you would be very confused and feel lied to.
That's a story you could tell! But it's not one you could tell with D&D.
subtoot apology
(also this is technically a subtoot, and I'm sorry to you for doing that, but I think this is important to say to a wider audience, rather than just to you – I don't want you to think I'm trying to attack you)
