Comment on “Alarmed”

Jesus, it's like an alternate universe.

There are all these people in that situation who want to play D&D and who don't like this weird pseudo-D&D ... but they're afraid that if their own games don't work out, they'll miss out on more of the bland pseudo-game?

I feel really sorry for them. I can't imagine being so terrified of your own game "not working" (give it time, dude!) that you feel compelled to participate in something which calls itself D&D and yet is utterly unrelated.

What I wonder is how many of these players think that the way these games run is normal-ish, since all the "unofficial" games of D&D they've played in previously have been just as scripted (i.e. non-game) as this one.