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Hm. Well, don't feel obliged to hew to existing genre definitions. Also, I'd still urge you to sit down and make a list of design goals, eg what you like about the *experience* of playing war games or ttrpgs, and then make rules to match, rather than starting with making the rules or choosing which ones to duplicate from existing games.

Your character doesn't know that information.

I think it's a false dichotomy. You want to decide what your design goals are, the kind of vibe you're trying to generate, and then create systems that support that vibe.

A wizard did it.

No one actually plays dnd like that though...

Given what Mountain Dew has done to me, that tracks.

Bards aren't just "a talented musician" they literally use magic. They're basically wizards that went the liberal arts path in college.

Yeah, in that case I think you did everything that could reasonably be expected of you.

I think that was the right action, but you could have explained better. Instead of just "Ok, you stay at the tavern" something like "Ok, you can stay at the tavern if you really want to, but you *do* understand that will mean you're sitting here bored all afternoon while the rest of us play, right?"

Everybody's gotta learn some time

Mac and cheese for dinner is lame and lazy too, but also fucking delicious. TTRPGS are something your friends put together for you out of love, not necessarily some clinically perfect professional product. And to extend the metaphor, if you go to a dinner party and start bitching about your friend not plating the food like a Michelin star place, you're an asshole.

Sometimes restrictions breed creativity, though.