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280 points cainxinth | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
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ourmandave ◴[03 Jul 25 15:05 UTC] No.44455814[source]▶
I hadn't heard of this until it was called out in a paragraph in the new DND 2024 rules explaining that the game is an abstraction and not a physics textbook.
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nkrisc ◴[03 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44455863[source]▶
I think games this are most fun when you play within the bounds of the rules (as written) and not consider them reality simulators (...magic...). Then you can approach the rules as merely constraints in which to optimize solutions to problems.

Of course as games like DnD are also a social affair, it's worth making sure everyone is having fun with something like this, otherwise what's the point?

I never could get into DnD because of the roleplaying. To me games are a set of rules which I view as a puzzle.

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throwawayoldie ◴[03 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44456471[source]▶
Which is a perfectly fine way to play if everyone at the table is having a good time. I think of RPGs as the lovechild of wargames and improv theater: some people favor one parent, and some the other.
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1. dllthomas ◴[03 Jul 25 16:23 UTC] No.44456662[source]▶
> some people favor one parent, and some the other

A number of the responses here say things like this, and I'm picking this one somewhat arbitrarily to call out that "people" isn't the only dividing line - some people very much favor different sides of it at different times, in different moods, in different contexts, to varying degrees.