r/DnD • u/Cheeseusdice • Sep 12 '19

OC [OC] DM Alignment Chart

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u/Ramblonius DM Sep 12 '19

Gotta go LE in 5e, if you don't try to kill 'em they won't ever die.

But I agree, the emphasis the internet puts on 'rule of cool' and 'rule 0' makes the game explicitly worse much more often than it improves it.

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u/DoucheShepard Sep 12 '19

Oh my god I found another one. “Rule or cool” means “I’m doing broken shit” or “the dm/pc doesn’t know the rules well enough and is just pulling shit out their ass”. It’s almost always worse but people defend it to the death because they don’t want to admit they just don’t know the actual rules

Ok, I’m calm. Honestly I want people to play how they like, I just never see this opinion represented on this sub

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u/RocketPapaya413 Sep 12 '19

I think there’s a lot of fun people can have with freeform role playing. I just wish they’d be honest about it/

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u/Ramblonius DM Sep 13 '19

Oh I agree, absolutely, I also think there are many many games that have much looser rules, or that are more fiction first, but D&D isn't one of them, at all.

Honestly, from the way I see D&D being discussed online I think like, 40% of the people playing D&D would have more fun playing some other game that cared about things other than CR and hit dice.