Andy Bates
andybates.bsky.social
Andy Bates
@andybates.bsky.social
Yes, THE Andy Bates!
That’s a complete misunderstanding of what CEOs do. Do you really believe this??
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yes, a subset of roleplaying games is tactical combat. But D&D is more than just combat rules, because roleplaying games are not wargames.
January 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Time to retire! Go out on a high note.
January 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Everyone knows that D&D is an RPG. I’ve provided the evidence. You’ve provided nothing.
January 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
You have no evidence to support your claim which is why you keep refusing to provide any.
January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
When you don’t have facts on your side, you just fling insults. Sorry that reality disagrees with your claim.
January 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Find me one D&D manual that describes it as a wargame and not a roleplaying game. Any manual. Any edition.
January 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Everything else is about creating a character with personality and purpose and drives and desires. Wargames don’t need character creation because a sniper’s personality doesn’t matter. It matters for an RPG. You’re still absolutely wrong.
January 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
You said that the majority of the D&D rules are about combat, and I proved it’s 10% at most. It’s always been an RPG. Every version, every ruleset. You have no argument.
January 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You’re not using “bait and switch” correctly, at all. You’re just making meaningless complaints to hide the fact that you’re objectively wrong.
January 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Man you’re just wrong.
January 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
D&D is a roleplaying game, so everything I said about roleplaying games applies to D&D by definition. You seems to have a critical misunderstanding of what an RPG is.
January 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Fights are a subset of the entire roleplaying experience. Combat is a small portion of the overall rules. Roleplaying games include combat, but that doesn’t make them wargames.
January 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Roleplaying games are more than just tactical combat. Again, just look at the rulebooks to see how little of the game rules are actually about combat.
January 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
No one has ever had a hard time finding D&D components. Ridiculous.
January 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Once again you seem to be confused about what a roleplaying game is. A roleplaying game can also have combat rules derived from wargaming, but a wargame does not have roleplaying rules. D&D is a roleplaying game, not a wargame.
January 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Yeah, he thinks that role playing can’t have rules, and that improv and rule sets are mutually exclusive. Oh well.
January 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
You’re either trolling or ignorant. You seem to not understand 90% of the rulebook.
January 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Once again, you seem unable to understand that narration and roleplaying can also have rules. Roleplaying does not mean decisions are arbitrary.
January 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Most of the abilities are non-combat abilities: searching for clues, negotiating with city officials, sharing knowledge about city history, things like that. I’m sorry you can’t understand that.
January 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
None of that information on uniforms really matters because you’re roleplaying most of the time. Schoolkids aren’t going to be in combat situations generally. Thanks for pointing out that D&D is a roleplaying game, not a wargame.
January 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Pages 9–186 are about character creation, background, races, classes, personality and background, adventuring…you know, all the roleplaying stuff.
January 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM