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Riddle me this /tg/.
Why is the image of the average warhammer/tabletop gamer some fat smelly neckbeard the world over?
>live in UK
>play comp scene for WH fantasy for a few years
>be around people from all walks of life playing warhammer for many years
>never once play against a fat smelly neckbeard who is obnoxious
>get one out of those three things sometimes but never the holy trinity
is it literally just America that pushes this image? Is this true even in America?
>is it literally just America that pushes this image?
Maybe.
>Is this true even in America?
That's at least 2/3rds of the player-base here.
>>47992230
>murrica
I'd say no, though those types are overrepresented in the hobby compared to the general population. I've know maybe 2 people that fit all three of those.
I will say that most of them are socially maladjusted /somehow/. I'm an introvert and socially awkward at times, another guy I knew had a pretty severe temper, another was lazy as fuck as never took care of himself or washed his clothes, a few were overweight, a few just had those senses of...
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>>47992230
In all /tg/ surveys that have been done, our median build is skinny scraggly vaguely-metalhead.
The god of theater is furious that your adventure is lacking in depth and emotional meaning. How do you convince him that your party has artistic depth?
Man that is a really cool mask, I want that mask
>>47992218
I don't, he can join if he wants to add it, but I'm not doing it.
We know that we're unable to do that, so we make it a farce instead.
I feel like there's a lot of weird anachronisms in D&D from a design standpoint. And how the game has progressed and changed has left a lot of people confused and bitter over what's different and why some things are the way they are. But I think I can sum up the MAJOR factor that goes into "old school" D&D and the primary rule/playstyle that defines it and explains a lot of the arguments that occur in D&D because of it.
Simply put: in old school D&D you were not meant to roll. What I mean by that isn't that rolling was IMPOSSIBLE...
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This is also where Stormwind Fallacy most likely reared its head because in a game that emphasizes freeforming and making narrative decisions to overcome in-game obstacles, rolling skills or dice was meant to be a risky but straightforward affair. If you failed, you failed hard, but if you succeeded, you'd just succeed without much description. Considering how TSR began releasing more and more broken content as they attempted to stay alive via shotgunning books out again and again it's easy to see how a generation of players could see these increasingly bonkers rules...
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But again in older editions: everyone had roughly equivolent "skills". Or at least, abilities they could use to interact with people and things. Since it all relied on freeforming until someone messed up or did something really risky it somewhat helped in making fighters and rogues feeling like they had more to contribute.
Then we get to 4th edition and now rolling is more prioritized than ever! With it practically being a combat-focused minature skirmish game. Although at the very least it can be argued it did that well. And (again arguably) the emphasis on...
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>>47991989
Continuation of a thread from a few days prior, which had some awesome writefagging based on two pretty cool concepts:
1) Since dinosaurs are supposed to be part of most tabletop worlds like D&D, why aren't there more weird mutated creatures in the same vein as blink dogs, displacer beasts, and owlbears?
and 2) What would 'prehistoric' equivalents to typical tabletop monsters be like?
Previous thread:
http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/47931657
Pic related: it's a unique mutant T-rex from Eberron that fits with point A. Another good example from the same setting is the horrid Tyrannosaurus.
Pic not unique but awesome nonetheless.
- Phase Raptors
- Ankylosaurus with a Chromatic Orb tail
- Dracodous
- Triceratops with a burrow speed
- Fire breathing dilo
