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chickensoupleg · 1 year

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It'd be fun if, just as a silly side job, Eddie and the older kids all just play a spinoff version of DND. Essentially it's just DND except there is NO plan involved. Zero. Everyone is allowed to craft the story's progression to whatever they want, within reason.

Pulling everyone off script is totally allowed though, as long as it's interesting. It's a break from having to have a storyline to be following specifically. If they want to fight a dragon, they can totally fight a dragon, but it's not a preplanned Big Bad, just a dragon that someone put into the story so now everyone has to go fight a dragon. There's no single DM. Everyone is in control. Everyone is the judge, jury, and executioner. They take turns guiding the story.

Also there's no math. Dice rolling, yes, but it's just purely a game of chance. The stats are less solid and more like... You have to simply understand your characters capabilities like it was just another person, un-amountable to numbers.

Like, for example, Robin plays a Bard character, and she's about to reveal something special about her Trumpet. But she makes.... Oh I don't know, Nancy roll a die. Any by choice of Robin. A certain number or certain range gives what her Trumpet has. Maybe it has ice powers. Maybe it is actually sentient and Robin's character did not know. Maybe it is just a random trumpet and it's actually contained years worth of spit and now everyone has to listen to her describe her emptying the spit valve.

By all accounts it still satisfies the general ideal of DND, it's just less pinned between a DM who knows the lore and the players who get to explore and knowing what math is. It's just general fun, go ham it's not like the world is watching. Nobody knows what plot could possibly sprout up next, what romances or deaths or anything will progress. There's a story to be found, but it's crafted by the hands of many.

(Plus, everyone can play several characters at a time. If Steve wants to play 3 separate guys who are named after him there is... nobody stopping him. It's not like they're all in play at all times, just when the story allows him to reintroduce Stevon, or Steve Jr., or Stebby the Evil Vacuum Cleaner Robot.)

#stranger things #stranger things 4 #steve harrington #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #eddie munson #they all are at the very least respectful of each other and it progresses more or less like a normal game #it's just now eddie is having fun helping craft a story with everyone else where even he can be surprised #not that his normal campaign can't be surprising but this is one where he doesn't know where they're even going next #one moment everyone is at a ball the next they're off to help a baby goo monster find its mama #and then after that they have to fight the evil vacuum cleaner minions because yeah they suck up goo moms #it's just a lighthearted no risks (sometimes risks if they get attached) sort of game #eddie sometimes uses the random storylines from this game and brings it to his campaign because it's just that good #only a few know the origin of the Ball Bag but man are the club members intrigued!#steve still doesn't get most of it sometimes but he tries his darnedest to play and seduce everything on sight #and by golly does he seduce everything on sight #eddie: He's like a Bard and their conquests but worse #alternatively everyone is a little nerdy enough that the game is just feral chaos #it becomes longstanding inside jokes between them and the Party get SO confused #they don't tell the kids about the side game because it's a thing just for them to bond and grow close with #same energy as not wanting to drag a child to your house party where there WILL be influences of Not For Kiddos #of course they write logs down on what happened thus far so they don't lose their places and lore #just instead of lore being prewritten it's interwritten #they probably do have character sheets anyways? but mostly so they have baselines of personalities #argyle plays a cabbage farmer for a good week and every time eddie plots on how to destroy the cabbages #in the end they kind of accidentally uh... kill said farmer and now he's a scarecrow with a rotting lettuce head #argyle then proceeds to make a lettuce farmer who is secretly in line for some throne???#everyone is just having a fun time okay

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