RollPlay -- D&D Campaign Show - Page 11

On February 28 2013 04:29 Tadatomo wrote:
The challenge of the game is to roleplay your character.

On March 04 2013 20:25 imJealous wrote:
I think Gen started to get it about half way through the second week. She was definitely frustrating to watch at first but I think she's doing fine now. It probably just takes some getting used to. I'm sure Ryan/Bregor will get a little more comfortable soon too and show us his personality as well and all four players/characters will start to gel into an entertaining cast of misfits. And I personally can't wait. The show is entertaining enough already and only two of the players have really been cutting loose... how good is going to be everyone figures out how to "be" their character and all four of them are playing off one another!

I feel like week one was the "Tudagub Episode" with JP + Show Spoiler + and week two was the "Vincent Episode" with Geoff + Show Spoiler +

I'm excited to see what happens tonight!

On March 05 2013 00:10 Tadatomo wrote:
Surely you can see the fishing for hints from the DM about which is the optimal way to play.
About if this is caused by playing video games, I can't say.

Surely in a sense there are certain options. Those are the options the DM has considered/prepared. And surely, while not limiting the player's choices, the DM would like the player to do what he expects them to do. I can see it as being very annoying when you give the PCs a plot opportunity and they just outright ignore it. Not to mention a player ruining hours of prep by making the 'wrong' decision.

In fact, one has to wonder if JP considered what he was about to do when he did what he did. And in a sense, the player kind of has to ignore this, but once you are aware it is hard to do so.

On March 04 2013 21:16 Simberto wrote:
In theory that stuff sounds like a good idea, but in practice it rarely is.

In most cases you can just assume that the characters will give each other status updates when there is a bit less action, so it really only matters in cases where one of them deliberately wants to keep something hidden, or in short-term tactical situations.

The "wants to keep something hidden" situation can best be solved by just secretly writing stuff to the dm, and the shortterm tactical stuff just is not worth the hassle of having to constantly deal with who heres what. Also it means that people get bored because you can only here what the others are talking half the time, and the rest of the time you just sit around waiting. You can't play those situations simultaneously because you have only one dm, and just sitting around waiting and not doing anything is not a lot of fun.

Basically, the main focus of the whole game is still to have fun, and sometimes trying to make stuff too realistic is really detrimental to that goal.

On March 05 2013 00:10 Tadatomo wrote:
Surely you can see the fishing for hints from the DM about which is the optimal way to play.
About if this is caused by playing video games, I can't say.

Surely in a sense there are certain options. Those are the options the DM has considered/prepared. And surely, while not limiting the player's choices, the DM would like the player to do what he expects them to do. I can see it as being very annoying when you give the PCs a plot opportunity and they just outright ignore it. Not to mention a player ruining hours of prep by making the 'wrong' decision.

In fact, one has to wonder if JP considered what he was about to do when he did what he did. And in a sense, the player kind of has to ignore this, but once you are aware it is hard to do so.