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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy
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Yeah tell him you've been googling stuff in the UK and now you feel you are ready.
DnD storey:
I used to play back in the day, we didn't use sectional dungeon layouts everything was in our heads. So there was a lot of latitude like you weren't sure if the orc was 10 or 12 feet away you just said I'm going after that orc. We had figures but these were just arranged to show marching order - and the GM would whip out his ogre and place it in front of the group to show what we were fighting but we wouldn't be moving our little figures around, it was all just spoken.
I fell out of DnD and started playing wargames, complicated shit where you're moving tons of units on hexes to try to make your perfect breakthrough and encirclement or whatever, but anyway my point is that there is a lot of math and you're always trying to figure out probabilities and adjust them on the fly.
Then me an my buddy get an invite to a DnD group, so it's been a decade at least we're excited to get some nostalgia so we go. This group is playing full tactical mode. Everyone is moving their figures exactly the number of hexes, you're either exactly in range or not, you know the deal. Me and my friend instantly hate it. We can't say "Ok I'm running at the middle guy and I'm going to try to stab him, but if I see his friends move then I'm just going to try to run through them all with a shield bash" because that doesn't work on the table. I have to say I'm moving ahead three, then rolling on the bash table, then moving two more otherwise people get anxious.
We weren't even going to try to convince the group to just play by imagination because everyone was super invested in their diorama/tableau presentation and they were trying real hard to run DnD like fantasy X-COM.
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yup
i never played dnd with any kind of measurements, we just made up #s and posititioning on the fly to make the story seem unique, sometimes our DM was pretty mean and would get us in trouble, but then someone would have a character with maximum tumble skill and they would just tumble around everywhere all the time. or w/e