RPG Balance RANT

Angry rant

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• roleplaying
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[23penguins32]

I just watched this again now. Come on. You know what I meant. It is not displayed in this post. What you're showing is the bad experience you had with an Elder in a party of beginners in you own experience. That does not represent all experience in everyone's games. That's an extreme. I did not address extremes in my post. I can't do, because I've not seen that quality of GM - sorry. Man, you know me, I just don't play like that. It's all got to be good. Seriously

[hammeredshitsteak]

@23penguins32 Frankly there is not a single reference to an experience of mine. None of the things I'm mentioning are reference to something I've experienced. Also of all the things I talk about in this video, mainly the end part was directed at you for the meta gaming thing. Your video mainly triggered what had been brewing for a while. This fits to others on youtube too, you were perhaps just the easiest to pick up from it. That's why I never mentioned anybody by name there.

[BattleBunny1979]

I can only click the like button once :-(

[hammeredshitsteak]

@BattleBunny1979 Haha thanks :D

[boltorange]

An angry rant about compromise? Nice. Also, I don't think these discussions start black and white. I feel like some responses I've gotten have not addressed what I actually said; rather folks attack an extreme version of it. TBH, I am very discouraged about YT for this reason and have had no desire to make new vids for a while now. This vid make me at least want to keep watching, just as your vids have from the start.

[hammeredshitsteak]

@boltorange Thank you very much. I try to do my best. But it was you and towerguardDM that got me into making RPG videos in the beginning so don't loose the spark, it would make me one saaaaaad panda ;__;

But you are right, the conversations can get to a difficult ground sometimes when people react like "What you vote left wing?! Don't you know Stalin killed 11 million people!!" like that you know. And it can drain you easily.

[thegentinquestion]

Splendid video, and a shame I've only just seen it! Lucky we have our facebook group. Here's to the middle ground!

[23penguins32]

@hammeredshitsteak Oh, see, I thought you were referencing what you said in my one about the Elder in the party of '1st levels' sorts. The same thing you said in the PMs we were exchanging at this time.

What I'm saying is, that sort of scenario is not what I am covering in my post. That's not what it's about.

To me, that situation is in extreme - a GM problem.

Again, as you probably know.

The 'meta-gaming' point I think is important, as many do that wrongly. It's not good. You know ?

[azirk83]

I find if I took an angry, highly funny approach to this topic it would be maybe half as good as this video. So I went a different route to hide the imbalance between our comedy skill.

[HeathbrookBadhwar]

Well said

[WorldofLos]

@hammeredshitsteak I think you're right on. Our Gm was very comfortable having the players as the "weakest guys on the totem pole" and when he ran a campaign that took him out of his comfort zone, I think he kinda gave up. When it comes to an elder PC playing with neonate PCs, I think that the game would be unbalanced. In terms of story, the elder would function like an NPC because the younger vampires would be the elders underlings. It would be almost two games at once and be too disconnected