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dragoness_e) wrote2023-05-04 07:24 pm
dragoness_e) wrote2023-05-04 07:24 pm
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What makes tabletop games better than MMORPGs
2019-12-28:
That's where the DM invokes the magic of tabletop games and does what MMORPGs and videogame RPGs cannot: "My world, my history, my rules. You rooted out the evals trade in the Duchy, made the legal and political changes to make it stick, there is no evals trade in the Duchy. OTOH, those selohssa over the border are coming here and raiding your farmers to sell over the border, you might want to do something about that... You also realize that it's potentially an act of war. How do you want to handle this?"
Seriously, I'm still trying to figure out how to rewrite the Forgotten Realms history, because our Time of Troubles didn't follow the plan AT ALL. None of the future trouble Cyric causes will happen, because Cyric isn't a god. Nothing Fzoul Chembryl would do as Chosen of Waffling matters, because he's perma-dead. Ditto for Elminister. Bane ain't coming back, either, because an older and more experienced god of evil has stepped into that portfolio and is making sure that the Baneson has a fatal and permanent accident. Etc, etc, etc. And I can do that, because it's our campaign, not TSR/WOTC/Hasbro's.
That's where the DM invokes the magic of tabletop games and does what MMORPGs and videogame RPGs cannot: "My world, my history, my rules. You rooted out the evals trade in the Duchy, made the legal and political changes to make it stick, there is no evals trade in the Duchy. OTOH, those selohssa over the border are coming here and raiding your farmers to sell over the border, you might want to do something about that... You also realize that it's potentially an act of war. How do you want to handle this?"
Seriously, I'm still trying to figure out how to rewrite the Forgotten Realms history, because our Time of Troubles didn't follow the plan AT ALL. None of the future trouble Cyric causes will happen, because Cyric isn't a god. Nothing Fzoul Chembryl would do as Chosen of Waffling matters, because he's perma-dead. Ditto for Elminister. Bane ain't coming back, either, because an older and more experienced god of evil has stepped into that portfolio and is making sure that the Baneson has a fatal and permanent accident. Etc, etc, etc. And I can do that, because it's our campaign, not TSR/WOTC/Hasbro's.