Spot the deliberate mistakes.
Nov. 16th, 2005 09:42 amIn an utterly doomed bid to make roleplaying cool and hip to a New Generationtm, yo, jive with the roleplaschnizzle in my crib, the makers of D&D have produced this little animated feature.
Now I don't know about your thoughts, but the depiction of gamers bears little or no relation to the sordid reality to which I have become accustomed.
With that in mind, I'm throwing open another one of my famous 'promise a prize but never deliver' competitions, in which I invite you lot to watch the animation and then list as many ways as you can see that the game, the gamers, and their house depicted differs from the awful reality of actual roleplayers.
Now I don't know about your thoughts, but the depiction of gamers bears little or no relation to the sordid reality to which I have become accustomed.
With that in mind, I'm throwing open another one of my famous 'promise a prize but never deliver' competitions, in which I invite you lot to watch the animation and then list as many ways as you can see that the game, the gamers, and their house depicted differs from the awful reality of actual roleplayers.
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Date: 2005-11-16 11:11 am (UTC)Also, where's the freakouts, moans, whining n general bitchyness about opening with a fireball?
Where's the guy who's absentmindedly reading while everyone else is doing stuff (There's always one. Usually me. Damn)?
For that matter, how is it that everyone is doing something useful? That just never happens. Usually in a battle
a) the cleric is unconscious & therefore unable to heal,
b) the fighter is on the wrong end of the map and takes most of the fight to get into the fight,
c) the wizard is busy being beaten to a bloody pulp while whining that the cleric can't heal him and the fighter isn't protecting him, and
d) the thief is busy pissing himself laughing at the wizard dying. (Don't ask me why, but every d&d game I've been in, the wizard and thief do NOT get along)
No rules lawyers? I mean, I've been in sessions that don't have 'em, but those are few and far between.
No 15 minute discussions amongst players about what to do?
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Date: 2005-11-16 11:15 am (UTC)