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malevolententity · 3 months ago

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oh! hey didnt know this was recent twt discourse im just like this 24/7 and decided to make it everyone elses problem again LMAOO

i thought about name dropping d20 and critrole and labynight because while i love them all dearly. they were in mind as some of the biggest podcasts in this space that actively do this. and fun fact! the example i gave about watch X hours of AP and ur smarter than someone who reads the books. is in fact a brennan lee mulligan quote from i believe an episode of adventuring academy with matt mercer or another interview they did that pissed me off when i first heard it a few years ago. but because i couldnt find the source immediately i didnt wanna full send attach it to him in first post unless i could attach a source fsdolhfs

like even jrwi which still feels p home gamey a lot of the time. i would Never rec someone listen to any of the dnd campaigns to learn dnd or pd to learn mutants and masterminds. or bitb for call of cthulhu or suckening for vtm dear god suckening is so bad for learning actual vtm. i started writing my meta essays Because suckening is so bad at explaining mechanics and people were curious how stuff actually worked!

like its def not an Every AP Sets Out To Do/Cause This. but i think the people who are Attracted to having ap shows be their first/main exposure to ttrpgs typically end up with the same expectations on how a game should go that just. does not mesh with the average ordinary experience. because every show even the small ones are extraordinary by virtue of having an audience at all that they are performing for

would u all understand what i mean when i say that i love actual plays theyre some of my favorite things to listen too but i think they are bad for the ttrpg community who actually Play Games as a whole? or like are u gonna hit me with rocks for this opinion?

#and jrwi is so fastly leaving home game territory depending on the dm but home game also doesnt mean. Teaching Game. which i think #should be a different conversation LMAO because i dont think u should expect your dm to teach you how to play a system. i think thats #extremely rude and bad manners to your dm but i Think thats a wildly unpop opinion #ALSO i shall have to check out those APs u mentioned whenever i feel like gettin something new in my ears #party of one sounds really interesting #like i really loved the short run of the homebrood i loved oracle of tiber #they were like cr where mid campaign they just started recording and posting their sessions. truly a fully home game turned AP #but it was not going to teach any mechanics and im tired of people pretending they will #APs will Never replace the dmg or phb or corerule book. and anyone who thinks it does is outing themselves as never having read the books #APs will never replace going to ylgs on game night and just sitting in on a session. because u can do that #u can sit in on sessions they encourage it and That will be better table experience than an AP #again i love aps so much. theyre so much fun and so entertaining. but they arent. the same.

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