Chebucto Regional Softball Club

...it's an *okay* movie: perfectly servicable Standard Hollywood Treatment^TM^; competently directed, performed, and edited; genre trope in-jokes liberally sprinkled throughout... ...i believe most positive reactions stem from defying expectations that it be a ***bad*** movie, rather than actually being *good*...

...so what you're saying is that we should start calling drow shiela and bruce?..

"You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range." ...its only component is verbal, and while it's not *subtle* casting it's fair to characterise as subtle *casting*; i'd argue for first-round surprise and in fact that's how we've played it at my tables...

feet. ...it's a tarantino thing...

...yeah, i think that's essentially a cultural distinction between tabletop and videogame backgrounds; i started seeing the transition in parallel with the advent of structured campaign narratives around the mid-eighties leading into the nineties... ...by contrast, our groups routinely swap DM roles across multiple tables which all share the same more-or-less persistent world, although individual character and DM experiences can vary within the boundaries of narrative coherence...that sustained investment is the fundamental point of of our tabletop campaigns; it distinguishes freeform from prescribed gameplay and is why we chose roleplaying campaigns over boardgames...

...if player characters aren't at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don't have agency: they're just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM's narrative... ...mind, i'm not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don't keep... ^(i^ ^already^ ^deal^ ^with^ ^that^ ^professionally^ ^and^ ^remuneration^ ^barely^ ^suffices^ ^to^ ^stay^ ^my^ ^contempt^ ^for^ ^the^ ^arrangement)^

...fair enough; i don't invest my time in campaigns where players don't retain agency over their own characters... ...west marches vs. one-shot campaigns, plenty of tables for both styles...

...nah, i have plenty of other characters available when the opportunity arises...

...i'm not big on direct replacements; i may rejoin at some point in the indeterminate future but if i'm out i'm out...