D&D story: I said D&D is not the best game for telling stories in a TTRPG con 

I hope one day my own system will be mentioned as one of the best for having a narrative focused experience. I think dice still can be useful even in narrative games, but I have to admit I had to rethink many a paradigm our hobby has until I found how to make that truly work.

This is so damn true, i had to explain to people that DND is always (even in the ye olden days) is a combat simulator first snd foremost...And I like that! I can always do Roleplaying without the need of a game system, been doing that for years, not throwing shade for those that like pure RP system like Fate, PbtA, etc. But they dont really do anything for me, i like for my TTRPG to have the G as the main thing, as I can always RP without the G just fine. But yewh i agree that DND isnt the best narrative game, but cant lie, when the dice aligned so perfectly that it can be remem for years to come, it feels special. Ofc thays mainly cause of the DM tho

D&D is definitely one of the most fun games for murdering a bunch of monsters, but there are barely any official rules or guides for how to make a compelling story, and the only tool that gives players actual control over the story, Inspiration, is something they can only be awarded by the DM. Compared to Fate, where you essentially get five points of Inspiration to use every session and only “level up” after completing a character goal, D&D has almost no tools to tell a story. Neither system is objectively better than the other, they just have entirely different goals. D&D is one of the most fun combat oriented RPGs I’ve ever played, and most of my players only seem to care about combat anyway.

Dude, I remember this 😂😂 Everyone definitely ganged up on you, and you were honestly right! D&D is a great system for improv because of the unpredictability of dice rolls, and improv is super fun! But it's not necessarily the best writing tool out there, and it's definitely not for everyone, which further complicates the cooperative nature of it. There are games out there that are specifically tailored towards story writing! Microscope, for example, is overtly a scene/setting/story builder.

i completely agree with you, it's something i've been saying a lot lately. I personally manage to make good stories in D&D too, but it's not the best system for that. i don't think that systems that let the players do the master work are actually a good way to tell a story, because if 5 people are writing the same story, it's hard to make it coherent. i think the best games to tell a story are games with no rules, or very very little rules, like elish (an italian, alost unknown rpg, that i personally illustrated). They force you to describe your actions in the best way possible, because the result depends mostly on your description. Events and fights are faster and much better described. If you want to balance game mechanics and rpg moments, i suggest you playing sine requie, vampires or call of chtulhu

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I know. The best game to tell a story is Follow 😁 I don’t play or GM DnD neither. The focus on the combat is to one sided for me. Although I am blessed with players that look for drama and try to improve the narrative all the time.

It can be. But it depends on the DM also.

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It can be. If you suck its just a combat simulator