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gertrude

how about that Godzilla: Minus Zero teaser huh?

so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.

he's going through a hair dye phase (sleeping in a berry patch)

No but seriously the thing in quotes is such a puzzling statement to me, because like obviously I don't adhere to a reductive definition of roleplaying where it's like "roleplaying is when dice are not being rolled," but like... the rules can actually facilitate roleplaying! In fact, many good rules do! If you find that rules are impeding roleplaying you may be using the wrong rules and should perhaps consider different rules!

I mean, idk. It feels like such an empty statement. No one actually enjoys rules that get in the way of roleplaying. What that statement is actually trying to say is that the speaker finds certain rules detrimental to their enjoyment in a roleplaying game. The rules are not actually detrimental to the actual act of roleplaying (no, seriously, they aren't!), you've just misidentified "not liking the outcomes certain rules produce" as "the rules getting in the way of roleplaying."

I think this stems from the fact that a lot of people - especially people who only play D&D have a small reference pool of systems - don't seem to understand that rules and mechanics actually can support different kinds of storytelling, even within the same genre.

Me in the world wherenI have ice cream: Im eating ice cream and im happy