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  • Because in my experience meta gaming like that is not an issue at 90% of all tables. And at the other 10% it’s just that one guy that causes an issue about trying to meta game their character out of consequences.

    RPG Rules are not laws, so they are not written for the lowest common denominator, but for a group of well meaning, socially functioning, above room temperature IQ human persons with a base level of trust.

    Not every table preference has to be mentioned in the rules to be legitimate. At my table, there are no secret rolls or checks that a PC makes without a reasonably clear concept of what the consequences of success and failure are. So a list of default stats that your GM can check would be a waste of time and book keeping. If your GM likes to use mystical rolls with undefined consequences and the percussion of hidden dice to increase tension, more power to them. But to me that seems a waste of everybodies time.



  • chillhelm@lemmy.worldtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkCope
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    17 days ago

    Several things:

    First: Of course there is GM immersion. The GM has to be able to “see” the world in his mind so he can describe it adequately to the players. Immersion is more than just “feeling like you’re there”. Nobody at the table thinks they are an actual high wizard or barbarian or sth. You can tell by how they are saying “I swing my axe” instead of actually swinging an axe. Immersion just means how coherent and complete their mental picture of the world and their characters place in it is (which comes with an empathetic connection with the character). The GM is doing the same thing to a lesser degree for many characters (all NPCs at the least, but also the PCs).

    Second: Your workflow diagram is only describing the simplest case of “Straight roll with predefined modifiers” and omits the kind of important part of actually rolling the dice and doing math with them.

    Third: You entirely neglect the fact rolling a die is often actually fun. Blowing on it. Pleading with the dice gods to give you a good result. Yelling “NAT 20!” or whispering “NAT 1” in dismay (or whatever your systems equivalent is). Putting a badly performing die in prison. Borrowing the lucky die from another player and negotiating lending fees. Rolling 15d6 to see how much damage your nuclear leveled fire ball actually does.

    Ultimately, you should play how you and your table enjoy it. I wouldn’t want to play at a table where some players (the GM is a player too) don’t get to make any rolls or have to make all the rolls. You do you, but to me that sounds like a terrible time.

    PS: During the pandemic my table switched to a VTT and I enabled automatic saving throws. I had to disable that feature because my players HATED “the computer” rolling for them. They insisted that they must be the ones to click on the “roll saving throw” button. If I tried to take their rolling during live gaming I would loose the table.



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    19 days ago

    Well but it’s not just the rolling is it? And it’s not just “a die”. Its ALL the dice. And not just the ones I would ask them to roll, but the ones they’d normally roll unquestioned. And all their class feats and modifiers and Free Rerolls and on and on and on. Either the GM has all that data (and must therefore manage it) when making a roll or he has to request the mechanical data from the players, which is just as immersion breaking and way more time consuming.


  • This sounds like a “GM is the entertainer” thing to me.

    Either you think doing rolls is a mechanical burden that strips away immersion and reduces fun. In this case making the GM do all the rolls does the same to them and why would that be ok?

    Or you don’t think rolling all the dice is a burden for the GM. Well then it wouldn’t be a burden for the players to do it either.

    There are systems that are all player facing (players make all the rolls), but I’ve never heard of the system that expects the GM to make all the rolls.



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    20 days ago

    For me as a GM this is a nightmare scenario. You want me to not only manage story, NPCs, physics, metaphysics, narrative cohesion, pacing, world building, encounter design and scheduling, I now have to make your rolls too? Miss me with that shit.

    I would turn this around: If there is trust [to not meta game] there is no need for the GM to make any rolls or have hidden stat blocks for any NPCs. This way the GM can focus more on roleplay.




  • Also, according to Muslims I have talked to, you have to knowingly and willingly consume pork for it to be a sin. If you are fed pork without your knowledge or consent the sin weighs on the one, giving you the pork.

    So I his bacon dipped bullets thing is triple stupid:

    Unless the Muslims know and want to be shot by these bullets, they don’t believe they’ll go to hell. If they don’t know or don’t want to be shot (which seems to be the most likely) they believe that YOU will go to hell for this. So either you believe their religion is right and you will go to hell or you believe their religion is wrong in which case the bacon doesn’t do shit.

    TLDR: Bacon bullets are right wing grift for terminally stupid people.



  • My wife would be in the former category (PO for the biggest software product in her company). Some days she has meetings back to back for 8h straight.

    She hates in person meetings. According to her:

    • Online/hybrid meetings are easier to keep on schedule (both starts and finishes are often delayed)
    • In person meetings more often go off topic
    • back to back meetings means going from one meeting room to another in person, sometimes in another building. That same time can instead be used to take notes/prepare the next meeting when you don’t have to walk anywhere and just click a button to be In the next call
    • when a meeting turns out to be irrelevant or useless to you, it is socially not acceptable to get up and leave. Just not having your camera on and doing other work on the side works without anyone knowing

    In person work is only for when companies don’t trust their employees. This is also true for people whose main work tool is meetings.


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  • Complete and utter pathetic losers people like you are to think waving signs and chanting slogans, and high-fives for feel-good protests do anything useful other than self gratification.

    Meanwhile Germany announced yesterday that it would stop all weapons deliveries to Israel. That is “The safe existence of Israel is part of the Reason Germany exists”-Germany stopping weapons deliveries. That would not have happened without public protests that shifted public opinion.

    Complete and utter pathetic people like you are to think writing online comments about how everything is pointless makes them somehow appear cleverer or wiser than the people at least carrying their dissent to the streets. Go away you nihilistic troll.