5D Role-Playing: The Highest Level of All!

[TristramEvans]

You have all been role-playing wrong, and it saddens me. As Master of the OneTrueWay it is my duty to educate you so that you too, if you are worthy, play RPGs at the highest level! This secret has been passed down since the Bronte Sisters, and will revolutionize your conception of role-playing and transform your games into True RPG Art! Free yourselves from the brain-damage inducing playstyles that companies foist upon you to keep you from feeling the true depths of the RPG experience.

The secret of 5D role-playing is at once simple, but so full of depth that it will drown lesser men!

And I reveal it now for you, so that, if you are brave enough, you too might join the ranks of the True Role-Players...

Spoiler

Hand Puppets

 

[Eron the Relentless]

You have all been role-playing wrong, and it saddens me. As Master of the OneTrueWay it is my duty to educate you so that you too, if you are worthy, play RPGs at the highest level! This secret has been passed down since the Bronte Sisters, and will revolutionize your conception of role-playing and transform your games into True RPG Art! Free yourselves from the brain-damage inducing playstyles that companies foist upon you to keep you from feeling the true depths of the RPG experience.

The secret of 5D role-playing is at once simple, but so full of depth that it will drown lesser men!

And I reveal it now for you, so that, if you are brave enough, you too might join the ranks of the True Role-Players...

Spoiler

Hand Puppets

It's true their greatest disciple was Fred Rogers, the absolute king of the modern era of 5D roleplaying. So much so that he made a career on it.

 

[Simon Hogwood]

Spoiler

Hand Puppets

People are always saying that games need more gonzo . . .

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Hand puppets included!

 

[Bunch]

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Hand puppets included!

I was just about to post this. I've had a hand puppet rpg for decades!

 

[Endless Flight]

 

[Eron the Relentless]

I was just about to post this. I've had a hand puppet rpg for decades!

 

[Moracai]

Quick! Somebody make a video reply to the 4d people

 

[Fenris-77]

Is this is or out?

 

[TristramEvans]

Is this is or out?

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[Fenris-77]

That's marvelous. There is a much bigger fanbase of Sectaurs that I would have guessed, thank you internet. I got the big hand puppet one above for Christmas in 1988 or thereabouts.

 

[TristramEvans]

That's marvelous. There is a much bigger fanbase of Sectaurs that I would have guessed, thank you internet. I got the big hand puppet one above for Christmas in 1988 or thereabouts.

I loved those toys as a kid

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[EmperorNorton]

Real roleplayers use marionettes.

Hand puppets are for casuals who don't appreciate the true art of roleplaying. And don't get me started on shadow puppetry.

 

[Ladybird]

Finally, validation.

(Yes, that is my actual arm, along with Emma the Wolf.)

 

[Nakana]

 

[SavAce]

What a weird way to find out my friends are at the forefront of masterclass role playing.

 

[AsenRG]

...only highest until 6D comes along, I say!

 

[David Johansen]

...only highest until 6D comes along, I say!

Marrionettes!

 

[PolarBlues]

 

[rumble]

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Hand Puppets

Pfft. Might as well tell me to wear a condom.

As an alpha RPG-er, I categorically refuse.

 

[arjunstc]

 

[PolarBlues]

1D = Length
2D = 1D + Height
3D = 2D + Depth
4D = 3D + Duration
5D = 4D + Swo

 

[AsenRG]

1D = Length
2D = 1D + Height
3D = 2D + Depth
4D = 3D + Duration
5D = 4D + Swo

I think you're mistaken, alas...

4d and 5d are obviously referring to the rating of the Roleplaying (TM) skill of the GM, under WEG's d6 system!

 

[arjunstc]

1D = Length
2D = 1D + Height
3D = 2D + Depth
4D = 3D + Duration
5D = 4D + Swo

I officially declare 5D the official roleplaying style for the Pub.

 

[AsenRG]

I officially declare 5D the official roleplaying style for the Pub.

...and I apply an EABA rule to it, and turn it into 4D+2, starting the edition war!


Come on, you knew that was incoming!

 

[Voros]

 

[SoManyRats]

Obviously the only true RPG. We need a real OSR (Old Sectaurs Renaissance)!

 

[opaopajr]

But 5D scrambles your brain! /checks notes
Sorry, that was something about cell phones... /checks notes again
So wait, when do we have to strip ourselves down and whip each other with nettles? When we 5D in Scandinavia?
I can't have marionettes because mom is afraid I'll choke myself on the strings. So 6D is too dangerous for me.
Do we get candy if we reach 7D? Or is that when we purge out our body thetans?

I can't handle the strain!

 

[Ynas Midgard]

And don't get me started on shadow puppetry.

I hate those guys! All style, zero substance.

 

[spittingimage]

My group is already five dicks around a table.

 

[EmperorNorton]

My group is already five dicks around a table.

Playing Gumshoe?

 

[AsenRG]

Playing Gumshoe?

Would that be too much like work?

 

[EmperorNorton]

Would that be too much like work?

If there is one thing I've learned about dicks, is that asking them to stop being dicks just makes them be even bigger dicks.

 

[AsenRG]

If there is one thing I've learned about dicks, is that asking them to stop being dicks just makes them be even bigger dicks.

There some amount of truth to what you say, but I've got a nagging suspicion that there might be a false equivalency somewhere in your post...

 

[Lofgeornost]

So what’s all this I hear about role playing with WD-40 (adjusts ear trumpet)?

 

[Acmegamer]

Ever drive by something, realize that you don't want to be seen and yet you can't stop watching? That's me on this thread. You all are twisted! Twisted I say!

 

[AsenRG]

Ever drive by something, realize that you don't want to be seen and yet you can't stop watching? That's me on this thread. You all are twisted! Twisted I say!

Indeed, I've been thinking of visiting this gym again!

 

[Toadmaster]

Gerry Anderson approves of the pub's new pro-marionette faction.

 

[Haiku Elvis]

Clearly the roleplaying GOAT.