 D&D does not help us tell good stories. D&D is mostly terrible at that and you're all thinking right now But I've told great stories with D&D and so we have Wasn't the game that was doing that because you can't evaluate a role-playing game by your experiences alone You can only evaluate it by what is actually written in that book, right? You know a lot of people try and tell me you know I say D&D is not a role-playing game or it's a bad role-playing game and they're like no I just had the greatest D&D session we have this great story going everything's amazing And I'm like that's all you what part of that did D&D make happen and they can't tell me, right? They just come up with some other excuse listen we can role-play Monopoly goods get off my Atlantic Avenue post-taste I'm playing a crazy guy. Does that character doesn't want money does that make Monopoly a role-playing game because we can role-play We can create a good story around the game Monopoly that doesn't mean Monopoly is a role-playing game You're giving Monopoly credit for the thing that you did all on your own. It was you all along Right D&D is the magic feather. You don't need D&D to fly you don't you can fly on your own You don't need this weird system that all it really does is tell you how to move around the dungeon and stab things So my character before he's confronted through the game master with this world. We're gonna have some conflict What is my character my character is literally nothing more than that in Dungeons & Dragons Now you might think I think they're laughing at the fin up in the car Now you might think But that is really all that's there and we're not just talking about Dungeons & Dragons Pathfinder Pretty much where all these games are basically Sort of call it the same game. They're different combat skins and what is essentially the same role right? It's like oh in L5R you can die really easily and use D10s, but in D&D use a D20 It's like it's the same idea though. It's it's all you know, so if I'm gonna tell the story of my character here I'm not gonna talk about my strength stat. That's not interesting and it turns out that that's the only part of my character That is character that is story who he knows what he's done where he's going why he fights for what he fights for That's it in that whole character sheet. That's it Yeah, try to tell me this is a role-playing game But what percentage of it has anything to do with role-playing that percent and most of that is a picture now You've been in this boat before right there under relationships. You write that Kelvin Blackstaff is your uncle You really love Kelvin Blackstaff, don't you? This is my go-to. You know what we should go with Trist as your cousin. I could. That's why we should go with it Ah, we'll get to that later. Yeah, so I write down in my character sheet in that tiny little space for character background That Kelvin Blackstaff is my uncle. Game Master doesn't give one shit about that There's no rule in the book that says anything about that if Kelvin Blackstaff is your uncle then you get plus one No, there's nothing like that, right? It's just something you made up in this text area They gave to you and nothing in the book makes that matter whatsoever if you're gonna make that matter That's something you do on your own not something D&D makes matter So all of that how much of this does D&D make matter? Well pretty much just race That's the biggest stretch I can even make to have anything highlighted on this