@NautArch The campaign running in the city was D&Desque and in many regards what I have explained there is actually more general GMming advice stemming from one motto: Be a fan of the PCs.
I translated "I would have done it, but turned and forgot" via google translate, hoping that phrasing would be end up with a more idiomatic latin phrase.
Otherwise, how do I convey the meaning of
"I was going to, but then I got distracted and forgot."
as a sort of tongue-in-cheek motto?
@ThomasMarkov I actually have not. I stopped reading the series once it no longer had Susan and Edmund because really what's the point? (Other than adopting "The dwarves are for the dwarves, and won't be taken in" as a personal motto.)
@PierreCathé You may be interested in reading through the rules for Dungeon World (or the other Powered by the Apocalypse rule sets, though I'm not very familiar with those). The motto is "play to find out what happens", and there are fairly structured rules around what BESW is talking about regarding factions with goals, rather than predefined outcomes that you try to force.
Let's not drag that old chestnut out again. The last time, it became clear that "system matters" was not being used in a Forgian way because those two words aren't always an archaic motto, people often use them without all that baggage, and most of the closures were because of actual lack of clarity and substance and not an imagined vendetta against roleplaying.
@Yuuki the discussion was prompted by my question about whether there was an in-game/in-lore reason for certain classes with a shared spellcasting ability having different lists of spells available to them, but aside from that, D&D is not just about combat, despite how fun a play on the Who's Line motto is :-)
GM: Okay, in Ironclaw your character is supposed to have a personal motto.
TOAD HEALER: Don't Touch Me
WATER-BUFFALO DRUID: I'm Too Old For This Shit
ELEPHANT NOMAD: Patience Is A Virtue
CENTIPEDE ASSASSIN: I'll Bite You
CORGI PALADIN: SQUIRREL!
Any chance we can make this comment our new site motto: "A bit flabbergasting to find the Roleplaying Stack Exchange is a healthy community full of knowledgeable, considerate people. I hardly expected anyone to read my monsterlith of text."
I did vote for the ballot issue to change DC's motto to "Taxation Without Representation," which would have then been appeared on the license plate of "the Beast," the presidential limo.
Proposed Site Motto, Dave Arneson 1979: "I am not a sadistic and cruel DM, my fairness and the unbiased manner in which I obliterate expeditions slowly one character at a time is known by all my players."
I translated "I would have done it, but turned and forgot" via google translate, hoping that phrasing would be end up with a more idiomatic latin phrase.
Otherwise, how do I convey the meaning of
"I was going to, but then I got distracted and forgot."
as a sort of tongue-in-cheek motto?
