[UA] "Real-World" Syncronicity

[Doug Stalker]

Brian Nisbet wrote:


> > In a typical DnD game this doesn't create a problem - 
[...]
> > UA is NOT DnD.
> 
> Why do you have to ruin a wonderful post by making sweeping statments and
> the such. 

I was in a broad-sweeping-generalization mood.  However I did use the
word 'typical', by which I mean most (but not all) DnD games.  While
there are people out there role-playing DnD, there are far more
roll-playing it.  The demographics may change a lot if you only look at
DnD players who also play UA, but as previously mentioned I was making
broad generalizations and hence talking about my perception of the
majority of DnD players.

I apologise if I offended anyone.  If it helps, you can place the word
'munchie' in front of every instance of DnD in my previous post and get
a better idea of what I was talking about.


> 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".  

I have preconceived idea of what DnD is like based on my experience, and
untill shown otherwise I infer that any DnD game will match this
concept.  In the same way I have preconceived ideas of UA, CoC, Vampire
and those countless other RPGs I've ever played in.  It's just like
racism, except for Roleplaying games instead of Races.


 - Doug



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