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Offline Libertad

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Dungeons & Dragons Debates on Social Media
« on: September 01, 2016, 06:13:29 PM »
It may be personal bias, but in comparison to other social media and message board posts the discussion points about popular subjects tend to be...odd, to put it lightly. Sometimes I feel like they are weird hypotheticals, because if these were created in-game it would result in some very weird scenarios.

Examples:

"I just picked up several Pathfinder books after a failed bout of 4th Edition. I am happy to see that Paizo's preserving Gary Gygax's legacy in how games were played in the days of yore.*"

"Can committing genocide be a Chaotic Good act?"

"How can I punish the party PC for poor role-playing?"

"Is it still an evil act if this highly contrived and situational scenario which doesn't happen in 99% of actual games forces my hand?"

"How can we get Pokemon Go players to try Dungeons & Dragons?"

"Goddammit, why are we talking about Pokemon Go?"


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*Gygax hated 3rd Edition.

"Hey guys, how would you stat Shillary Clinton?"

User has been blocked/reported 110 times.

Third Party/Former TSR employee is now following you! :cloud9

Third Party/Former TSR employee is retweeting 'deport Kanye West' picture. :huh

Does anyone here have any odd arguments, flamewars, or debates they'd like to share, whether from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc?

Let's keep it to social media examples. I'm already well-aware of message board stuff, and the distinctive nature of this particular medium lends itself to a different environment which can't be as easily found on RPGnet.
« Last Edit: September 01, 2016, 06:21:37 PM by Libertad »

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons Debates on Social Media
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2016, 08:25:54 PM »
*Gygax hated 3rd Edition.
"I put in every rule I could think of" vs "The new D&D is too rule intensive" :love

Also all that "combat power" focus seems to generate all LG characters?  :lol