Unpopular opinion thread, mark 2

Original thread here As for my unpopular opinions.

>J.R.R. Tolkien's writing is brilliant but it is most definitely NOT for everyone. It's all right to not like it. That being said, the amount of just wrongheaded pig stupid comments floating around the internet about the structure and meaning of Lord of the Rings is staggeringly common and bad.

>Most people seem to not understand what rolling dice in RPGs are for. It's merely a tool to create randomness, but that doesn't protect you from a bad GM railroading or otherwise fucking with you. It is not a substitute for making choices, which is what the game really should be about.

Here's my unpopular opinion:

You didn't need a second thread.

Nor did you need to post, yet here we are, together again. Deal with it.

There is nothing wrong with D&D and seasoning to taste.

Generic systems can be good, but homebrew systems to fit the theme and flow of a campaign and setting are much better.

There is nothing wrong with having, playing, and/or sexualizing "furry" characters. There's no difference between that and your elf waifu, get over it.

At any time during a campaign, the GM/DM has a right to change, edit, modify, or remove any and all of a players spells, class features and powers if they are unbalancing and breaking the game. Entitled whining about RAW is both wrong and the cancer killing TTRPGs

The players are not always entitled to a roll. If your character is already in an ogre's grip, there's nothing you can do to stop it from popping your skull like a grape. This goes both ways however, DMs should never make a player roll to climb up a ladder or to defeat an unarmed goblin in combat.

People who hate the d20 dice curve don't understand why it's good. People who make shitty homebrew dice curve games are missing the point. If you need to manipulate the modifiers and dice percentages so that someone only has a 1/1000 chance to succeed, what's the point in rolling? Let a few linear modifiers do it instead, and let the underdog win sometimes.

Bait and switch railroading is trash. Don't make one dungeon and send the players through it no matter which direction they take. It's lazy, and robs your players of their free will. Your precious "story" is not nearly as good as you think it is.

Playing all the generic high fantasy tropes straight doesn't make you creative. You're being just as 'subversive' as those hipsters you needlessly dispose.

Letting casters and martials be unbalanced in your game, if they are both playable, is laziness and shows a stupid and ineffective dungeon master.

Your "human only low fantasy setting" is not creative, not original, and not interesting. Stop pretending like you're a rebel.

Ask me how I know you're an intellectual lightweight. Tolkien was a halfway decent world builder. His actual writing was aggressively pedestrian. And he basically stole wholesale from The Kalevala which you would know if you were at all well read.

>unironically uses terms like "intellectual lightweight"
>mhmm yes if you actually read this obscure shit that nobody cares about you would know that tolkien stole from it
>implying all media does not steal from other media
>mhmm obviously you aren't as smart as me because you haven't read this specific thing I have looks like I win

Maybe you should take your hollow elitist posturing to Veeky Forums, I'm sure they'll be very impressed.

Interlacing 6 different plotlines is hardly "aggressively pedestrian", nor is filtering everything through several layers of unreliable narrators.

And pretty much the only thing that is stolen from the Kalavela is Turin as Kullervo. (And even then, Turin is enormously more heroic in the classical mode than Kullervo ever is) You won't find an analogue for hobbits in the Kalavela, nor will you find things like PTSD, the savior hero being rejected, or a notion that power itself is corruptive.

>Your "human only low fantasy setting" is not creative, not original, and not interesting. Stop pretending like you're a rebel.

Fucking thank you. This shit's getting old. We get it, you like Game of Thrones. Now fuck off.

>People who make shitty homebrew dice curve games are missing the point.
Or they want a style of play that doesn't have them fudging with the numbers non-fucking-stop to make sure that character skill is the deciding factor in how successful a roll is going to be far more often than anything else.

Then why bother rolling? If you want a more skilled fighter to beat the everloving shit out of a nonskilled one, then there is no reason to have a roll for it. It just happens.

Even a rather paltry +5 modifier on a d20 is an increased +25% chance to succeed. Why do you need to skew the odds any more? If you are so adamant about the character having a deciding factor then why is there a roll?