[FRIAM] quickening

[Jon Zingale]

Nick,

The constraints of D&D are in part set by what is interesting for the
development of collaborative storytelling. It is crucial to recognize
that while a game, it is *not an adversarial* game (except perhaps at
the meta-level where each player is attempting to troll the DM†). Besides
this subjective constraint, there are compendia
<https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/BookIndex> (continually under
development)
which have evolved the objective constraints for the game. The word
*campaign*
is used because the game is designed with the intention of developing a
story arc (with many sub-arcs) which can take years to tell. The campaigns
that I am a part of are predicted to be five-year campaigns. In one
campaign,
our characters have a key which opens a secret door to 1970's Tokyo, there
is ample freedom to explore fantastic domains far from traditionally high-
anglo-fantasy.

you write:

*"By the way, I keep hearing programs on NPR that suggest that 5G
willeliminate life as we know it."*

Have you heard any of the various conspiracy theories surrounding 5G and
Covid-19? A couple of weeks ago, an elderly woman on the bike path stopped
me to express one. Curiouser and curiouser ;)

Jon

†) use google.
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