[UA] "Real-World" Syncronicity

[Brian Nisbet]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:15:50PM +1100, Doug Stalker wrote:
> Role Playing in NOT snakes and ladders.

Definitely.  And I agree with a hell of a lot of this post, I've been
there, to where the boundaries between character and player are too thin
to count and when the dice seem to know what's going on, but... 
 
> In a typical DnD game this doesn't create a problem - you can't identify
> strongly enough with your character, and the emotional effect on the
> player comes form the effects on what the player views as a piece of
> their property - like the way you'd be upset if someone destroyed your
> Television Set, but you wouldn't think of it as destroying you.  
> 
> UA is NOT DnD.

Why do you have to ruin a wonderful post by making sweeping statments and
the such.  Give me the right players and I will turn any game into a
munchie fest, even UA or OTE.  Given the right players any game can be an
intense, electrifying experience.  I've been playing D&D for night on 17
years at this stage and it kinda annoys me every time somebody looks down
on it from their lofty perch of UA or CoC or similar and goes "Well, this
kind of roleplaying could *never* happen in D&D".  Why not?  It's an rpg,
you take on a character.  Just 'cause it's marketed as a dungeon crawl
doesn't mean it has to be played that way.

I've lost characters in my current D&D game and it touched me deeply, but
what was more worrying was when the wife of one of my characters died and
I seriously considered not playing that character again 'cause I didn't
want those feelings again.

Yes, D&D is not UA, they're very, very different games with different
atmospheres, but don't discount D&D just because the majority of it's
players are younger and more munchie.  Once you're actually roleplaying,
not rollplaying, the system doesn't matter any more.  That's the point at
which I'm glad I got involved in all this.
 
B.

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