Alignment “Tends to chaotic evil”? No, this will not do. Lawful evil or lawful neutral, sure, but I suspect that most genuine devotees of the chaotic alignments wouldn’t be attracted any game so rules-bound as D&D. At best, a chaotically aligned DM’s game would be a sort of table top RPG version of Calvinball.
Aw, look at that Zip-a-tone! How nostalgic. Doing that sort of thing with computers has taken all the fun out of comics these days. :)
ReplyDeleteI think it's ironic that this appeared in the same issue as an article complaining about 'absurdist' approaches to D&D.
ReplyDeletePulsipher seemed much more down on simulationism than on absurdism, though the larger point stands.
DeleteWell, it was April. Silliness is kind of expected in April Fool's issues.
DeleteAlignment “Tends to chaotic evil”? No, this will not do. Lawful evil or lawful neutral, sure, but I suspect that most genuine devotees of the chaotic alignments wouldn’t be attracted any game so rules-bound as D&D. At best, a chaotically aligned DM’s game would be a sort of table top RPG version of Calvinball.
ReplyDeleteMany people attracted to D&D don't care for it's actual rules
DeletePerhaps the alignment was meant to underscore the arbitrary and capricious nature of the Dungeon Master as presented here.
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