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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] dubious@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

the right way to play dungeons and dragons

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

You can't just drop a bombshell like that without sharing the opinion.

[-] dubious@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

basically 2e style: a fantasy simulator with a lot of gritty mechanics, where the party keeps it mostly serious, and the GM uses historical inspiration to make a culturally and mythologically balanced world that is part sandbox, part scripted, medium magic, and very immersive - a world that is not centered around the players, a world where PC death is a real risk and the players have to actually be engaged to survive.

like, serious D&D shit.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Never to play, at all?

[-] dubious@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

walk away, casual observer. you do not want to climb the slope to this grognard's mighty bastions. surely, you will be defeated.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No, that's global thermonuclear war.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

I walked in on a session (might be D&D) at a bar where they spent about two hours talking about their characters backgrounds. Not a dice or figurine in sight. I think they did one skill check. But most of it was just party members talking to each other and the DM.

Yeah not for me.

[-] dubious@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

yeah, i'm not into the theater kids style of D&D either, but i do like immersive RP balanced with combat and problem solving.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's objectively the right way to role-play, but D&D isn't the right system to do it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

AD&D 1st Edition Forever!

[-] psion1369@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Or that there are other RPG games outside of D&D and Pathfinder, games that are so much better.

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