Overview

Hi Hi, Lets see where this will go

C o n t e x t u a l D N D (W.I.P) Contextual dnd is about contextualizing the technical mechanics of dnd things like ability scores, skills and other stats not to mention feats and other abilites that rely on numbers. contextualizing them is often a game of persuasion. saying, wearing, doing (successfully) things that convey to the GM that yes, your character should be able to do these things. similar to how the gm decides on what the required dice roll is, they also decide if you've displayed enough infomation for them to judge if you can do whatever it is you seek to do. Take the ability score of strength for example. if you wanted contextulize it as being high, you might do things percieved as being strong. like wearing heavy armor and carrying a shield, have mentioned feats of strength mentioned in your backstory, carry a buster sword as a main weapon. manage to defeat monsters who also demonstrate feats of strength or gain a reputation for being particularly strong. on the other end the GM could bestow you with items or other things to further boost those same ability scores.

i can get that... me im just trying to set up groups before blopping myself. maybe take a bit of a hiatus again

I kinda blipped off the site as a whole for a while due to irl shit hitting the irl fan.. im trying to catch up on rps but still not in the best spot atm

on a unrelated note what happened with that rp in the demon mansion club... you kinda blipped out

I mean, do what you want hun :3 i just want to make sure you knew what the title meant more than anything

a thread for generlized resources of the club or mechanics typically used to display how to contextualize dnd mechanics or the mechanics of other dnd like games, or more over enlisting other games so people can find and get familiar with how it to play it so they can better contextualize the mechanical aspects of the game... note that the contextualized explination often acts as a suggestion, and that if you know of a method for doing so without the use of stats or dice your welcome to do so.

ohhh, i mean what im actually trying to do is make it so that any dnd like game or can be converted into this rule light version as you put it. typically by playing them off purely context... not just solely dnd it's self.... but yea in that case what your suggesting probably makes more sense

theater of the mind is for when you play without mini's or a board, basically just using character sheets and dice to play the game well you rely on your imagination to picture the situation including combat your basically looking to do a version of it thats rules free/rules lite which is arguably similar but distinctly different, in that im assuming you want to avoid dice rolls entirely along with the numeric portion of the rules ...frankly it sounds like you want to do a medieval magic based powered by the apocalypse system but thats significantly different so its hard to go into any real detail in passing

oh i was pretty sure "theater of the mind" was when you basically forgo the mechnaical and technical stuff and just play of imagination and context alone.... i could compromise and add it into the title... would you be ok with that?

the clubs name, theater of the mind kinda... covers everything play by post does does by default on a site like this. I just thought I would suggest it

you mean the thread or the club it's self

their are no limits in the characters you can make however you are limited to using one post to place them all on... pretty simple really just place that wall of text in spoilers so you can neatly create a list of character or you know alternatively a list of variants of the same character for diffrent dnd game types. because of the nature of the club do reframe from mention of stats and statistical numbers or feats. but also because as im writing this i haven't quite yet worked out how these mechanics will operate without the use of stats and dice yet. for this thier is no sheet to copy past from, with so many game variations your bound to trip up so its best to just make your own around a particular dnd game/character sheet. though remember, no stats, statistical numbers, and of course unique items or skills that might mirror one's from the game.

might i suggest phrasing it as "DND rules lite" instead? i feel like that lines up with your intent a little more based on what im reading

still working on the kinks myself (no pun intended) so you might have to wait, but i appreaciate you joining anyway... kinda doing a bit of a rework in some area's

going to just grab a "join" to see where this goes

typical place to announce changes to the club

thread for chat, discussion, suggestion and so on out of character.