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Just a general hint and tip from a DM who is tired of this shit.
Try being a better DM that doesn’t unnecessarily put their players into unsatisfying situations where they have to play against themselves. Make the thing their characters learn actually be something the player has to learn, instead of scolding them and calling them “bitches” when they don’t jump through your hoops.
Forcing a whole table full of people to deliberately be ignorant and pretend to "discover" things that they already know isn't fun, it's tedious. Even most "roleplay over gaming" types are still there to roleplay being a heroic skilled figure, not a dribbling moron that knows nothing about their own world.
Pretending to be a moron can be fun for some players, if they're freely choosing to do it themselves. Being forced into it, especially if it happens multiple times, isn't fun for most people. The guy on the right in that meme does not look like someone who's having fun, just someone who's briefly tolerating some bullshit so he can get on with the rest of the game.
This is the DM being thin-skinned about the fact that they wanted the players to have a challenge, and when it turned out not to be, wanting them to pretend like it was anyway so that they can tell themselves it was a good game.
Question. Do you know how to escape a car that’s upside down and submerged in water? Because if you don’t, there are a lot of things that are going to get you killed due to not being aware of what the issue is. it’s a danger that not everyone on the earth is familiar with despite the fact that it is a hyper common vehicle
This is a bad example. The point of the fire thing is that all experienced RPG players or readers of common fantasy literature know "trolls -> fire". You've picked a scenario that would also be obscure outside of a hypothetical game outside of the real world. I'm not questioning the possible existence of a world where professional mercenaries don't know that trolls are vulnerable to fire, but I do question its value as a fun game setting.
Yeah people complaining about "fire on trolls" as metagaming is a huge bugbear of mine because it's so ubiquitous across RPGs that it's virtually part of the definition of what a fantasy troll is. Imagine actually living in a world where they exist, becoming a professional mercenary, and still not knowing you need fire.
The weirdest thing I saw last year was a Tesla from an official dealer with a Pride flag wrap, as though their CEO wasn't actively engaged in a transphobic political campaign. They really DGAF where the money comes from as long as it keeps flowing.
I thought it was Jesus
This is like the skin-coloured band-aid thing again.
If it's a group of people saying they can help trans kids then it's "social contagion", but when it's a societal norm of hatred and oppression towards trans people pressuring them to stay closeted then hey, that's nothing to do with society, it's just the standard default.
Yes, and even more to the point, it's about how a group of bad actors have managed to co-opt feminism from being a progressive leftist cause to being a conservative hate group.
I live in Southeast Asia where almost every language does not use gendered third person pronouns, but there’s still a tiny subset of people trying to push pronoun-related culture war bullshit. It’s confusing and surreal.
I thought this was about Blackwater, you know, the company that massacred unarmed civilians for shits and giggles
My Grandma learned to cook in postwar Britain when rationing was still in full effect, and refused to learn a single thing since. I don't miss any of it.