A combat system is all that a TTRPG really is. There may be rules for travel, crafting, and skill checks … but the games only real purpose is to set guidelines.
All of the things you have mentioned are campaign issues, not system issues. Mystery, social encounters, interesting traveling… that is ALL the responsibility of the person running the game. No one should need a random set of tables to roll on to tell them that “Colonel Mustard killed someone in the library with a candlestick”.
You’ve either never left the DnD bubble, or you’re just blatantly ignorant towards 90% of what tabletop roleplaying games are! Seriously, that’s the shittiest shittake I’ve ever heard when it comes to TTRPGs. I seriously hope you’re joking, but I’m afraid you’re not.
At least a third of the TTRPG systems I play don’t even have combat rules because it’s just so irrelevant in these systems. And then there’s the vast majority of systems like Vampires: The Masquerade, Call of Cuthulu, fate, etc. where conbat exists, but is almost completely irrelevant. I’ve played in several groups that go multiple sessions without a single combat encounter and it never felt lile combat was important or missing.
Some people will argue on the internet about anything.
Player 1 posts “this system sucks, it’s nothing but combat, there are no travel events or mysteries”
Player 2 responds “That’s not the system’s issue, it is the Gamemaster’s. A system does not create a murder mystery storyline, the gamemaster does. The system is just a ruleset”
Player 1 basically responds “I play sessions all the time with no conbat, a third of the ttrpg systems I play dont even have conbat … here I will name three systems that I dont think conbat is important in: one has a massively detailed conbat system with limitless power combinations where vampires literally fight werewolves, fae, and wizards, one has a conbat system so brutal that it can drive players insane, and one has an amazingly cinematic conbat system. lol u dumb and only know D&D, the GM can’'t control the narrative … it’s the system that has to do it.”
A combat system is all that a TTRPG really is. There may be rules for travel, crafting, and skill checks … but the games only real purpose is to set guidelines.
All of the things you have mentioned are campaign issues, not system issues. Mystery, social encounters, interesting traveling… that is ALL the responsibility of the person running the game. No one should need a random set of tables to roll on to tell them that “Colonel Mustard killed someone in the library with a candlestick”.
Lol, what? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You’ve either never left the DnD bubble, or you’re just blatantly ignorant towards 90% of what tabletop roleplaying games are! Seriously, that’s the shittiest shittake I’ve ever heard when it comes to TTRPGs. I seriously hope you’re joking, but I’m afraid you’re not.
At least a third of the TTRPG systems I play don’t even have combat rules because it’s just so irrelevant in these systems. And then there’s the vast majority of systems like Vampires: The Masquerade, Call of Cuthulu, fate, etc. where conbat exists, but is almost completely irrelevant. I’ve played in several groups that go multiple sessions without a single combat encounter and it never felt lile combat was important or missing.
TLDR: Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Some people will argue on the internet about anything.
Player 1 posts “this system sucks, it’s nothing but combat, there are no travel events or mysteries”
Player 2 responds “That’s not the system’s issue, it is the Gamemaster’s. A system does not create a murder mystery storyline, the gamemaster does. The system is just a ruleset”
Player 1 basically responds “I play sessions all the time with no conbat, a third of the ttrpg systems I play dont even have conbat … here I will name three systems that I dont think conbat is important in: one has a massively detailed conbat system with limitless power combinations where vampires literally fight werewolves, fae, and wizards, one has a conbat system so brutal that it can drive players insane, and one has an amazingly cinematic conbat system. lol u dumb and only know D&D, the GM can’'t control the narrative … it’s the system that has to do it.”
Player 2 Responds “Sure man, whatever”