I read a good post a while back about how even though your classic d&d world looks like mediaeval Europe, it behaves much more like the wild west. Rephrase this post to “imagine you’re in the saloon and a group of armed cowboys roll in…” and suddenly it all makes sense again!
I’d call the Sword Coast more “Western Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire if that happened a thousand years later than it did and it happened all at once because of magic and also it’s been 1800 years since then but for some reason no one’s centralized power beyond the city state level or improved military or magical technology and THEN an actual real God got killed and everything got fucked until it was decided that was dumb and a mistake let’s pretend it didn’t happen”
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Okay maybe the Wild West metaphor is simpler.
In blade in the dark, you declare how much gear you plan to bring, so the GM knows whether it’s normal guys with a backpack , or guys in tactical suit with bullet proof jacket and a rifle.
But in general, yes, the setting need to react to adventurer party. It’s not ordinary
I’ve done once a one-shot where players were a group of militia that was investigating a rogue d&d party wreaking havoc due to a long series of misunderstandings.
That said, fighting the party without any strategy was downright suicide because of how much difference was there with their levels, gear and abilities.
However, players here just would get a new militia character or villager as soon as they died.
So You mean… Shadowrun
(Except its of course Stuffer Shack, and they might actually have some drones in the back)
It reads like an intro for a Food Fight indeed.
Just sounds like an actual event from the US. The group is a bunch of MAGAs trying to kill the “libtard mayor”
Until the second part, I thought this was about ICE.
I read most of the original post thinking it was about ICE.
At least, in D&D the story’s shopkeep can just cap the idjits where they stand. Sorry, table. Roll up new ones. 🤌🏼
This should be a part of the new employee training for D&D players.
To be fair I know where my Mayor lives, he lives at East End Ave at 88th St :3
