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[miawade]

I’m new to Dnd. I have a DM that does accents and voices and is so descriptive it’s amazing.

There’s been some conflict in our party that I’m wanting some opinions on:

We have a current player - Violet - who has played and researched our current campaign - the curse of Strahd. I felt like she was trying to direct us from the very beginning. When I called her out on this behavior - her character sneaking in weapons to Valaki even though said character follows the law and etc. turns out she knew about a big fight brewing there. Our DM and her say this isn’t metagaming bc she wasn’t maliciously taking advantage or trying to hurt us poker online terpercaya.

Violet continued with her behavior like directing us to a winery when we had no logical reason to go there and the party wanted to go to Kresk. Turns out she knew Kresk was under blockade and required wine to get in. She continued this behavior and our DM in a fit of frustration spoiled the campaign to “level the playing field” so we wouldn’t continue to get upset with her behavior.

After a sit down chat last night they revealed they play DnD to “complete” the quest. They were baffled when my brother, my husband and I said we played it for the mystery and adventure. We don’t have a check mark list of things we want to complete to “win the game”.

They said they never played with people who wanted to play the story for the story. To build connections and experience it. I thought that’s what RP-ing was?

Violet said this is why dnd players read other characters backstories and character sheets. This is why she researches and looks up campaigns. This was a huge deal for us and Violet - we did not like her looking up our backstories when we wanted her character to learn about our characters in game. She thought that made no sense

Can I get some insight into this?

Edited November 21, 2021 by miawade
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[miawade]

7 hours ago, miawade said:

I’m new to Dnd. I have a DM that does accents and voices and is so descriptive it’s amazing.

There’s been some conflict in our party that I’m wanting some opinions on:

We have a current player - Violet - who has played and researched our current campaign - the curse of Strahd. I felt like she was trying to direct us from the very beginning. When I called her out on this behavior - her character sneaking in weapons to Valaki even though said character follows the law and etc. turns out she knew about a big fight brewing there. Our DM and her say this isn’t metagaming bc she wasn’t maliciously taking advantage or trying to hurt us.

Violet continued with her behavior like directing us to a winery when we had no logical reason to go there and the party wanted to go to Kresk. Turns out she knew Kresk was under blockade and required wine to get in. She continued this behavior and our DM in a fit of frustration spoiled the campaign to “level the playing field” so we wouldn’t continue to get upset with her behavior.

After a sit down chat last night they revealed they play DnD to “complete” the quest. They were baffled when my brother, my husband and I said we played it for the mystery and adventure. We don’t have a check mark list of things we want to complete to “win the game”.

They said they never played with people who wanted to play the story for the story. To build connections and experience it. I thought that’s what RP-ing was?

Violet said this is why dnd players read other characters backstories and character sheets. This is why she researches and looks up campaigns. This was a huge deal for us and Violet - we did not like her looking up our backstories when we wanted her character to learn about our characters in game. She thought that made no sense guided hacking Can I get some insight into this?

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[miawade]

Tl;dr is there a blog post somewhere that has some skill roll examples for casino style games, from basic luck to high stakes skill games.

I'm prepping an intro session for my group, we're all playing for the first time, I'm the referee. I want to ease them into using skills using games of chance, opposed skills and earn/lose money, and I thought a casino would be great because 3 of the 4 characters are definitely degenerate gamblers!

So from basic games like roulette (I'd use an online random number roller), guess the card (I'd probably actually have the player guess a card), https://www.onyamagazine.com/australian-affairs/top-casino-games-that-must-be-on-your-radar/ go fish and so on, to luck + skill vs skill games like poker, baccarat, etc. Has anyone posted anything like this on a blog or site somewhere?

I'd like to have this take a decent portion of the game session and encourage the travellers with drinks so they have physical effects for a later encounter, so a variety of game types would be great.