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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 12, 2021 16:57:30 GMT -5
Just curious what amount of Grim and Gritty do you like in your D&D or not? How deadly and lethal do you like your D&D?
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Post by youngbuck on Feb 21, 2021 18:00:05 GMT -5
Just curious what amount of Grim and Gritty do you like in your D&D or not? How deadly and lethal do you like your D&D? I like some Grim and Gritty, I want the fear of death to be on the table and it is fair if now and then someone dies or even a TPK if as a group we screw up. There should be encounters where you should try to avoid combat by any means possible. There should also be some easy ones now and then. I like the world to be a little dark, in other words about like the real world in that respect. The real world is dark, bad people win a lot and good people lose a lot. In the real world you have despots and dictators and that can happen anywhere. Right now in 2021 there are concentration camps, genocide, slavery and about every other bad thing you can think of still going on. It is not any better than it has ever been. In some respects it is even worse than it has ever been, because these days when an evil person is in power, the power they have is is mind blowing. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 17:29:12 GMT -5
You are a remarkably well-informed young man. Yes, every terrible thing that has happened in the past, is going on right now somewhere in the world.
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Post by hengest on Feb 24, 2021 0:32:45 GMT -5
I like a touch of unpleasantness / potential humiliation and failure (and death) for the PCs and in the world at large, but don't like close-up (or really any) depictions of atrocities, torture, etc.
There is a tendency in some genre fiction in the last 20 years to go overboard with this stuff. It wears me out quickly and I lose interest. The web serial Worm by John McCrae fell into this a lot, and A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin did more than a couple times.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 24, 2021 1:42:34 GMT -5
I like a touch of unpleasantness / potential humiliation and failure (and death) for the PCs and in the world at large, but don't like close-up (or really any) depictions of atrocities, torture, etc. There is a tendency in some genre fiction in the last 20 years to go overboard with this stuff. It wears me out quickly and I lose interest. The web serial Worm by John McCrae fell into this a lot, and A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin did more than a couple times. I fully agree with you, I like for a lot of things to be alluded to off screen and not depicted at all. Just enough to show that the bad guys are really bad. |
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Post by mao on Feb 24, 2021 2:45:49 GMT -5
I started mysantia as grim and gritty, coma very, but I got fat and happy
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