Posted to my blog:
Part of the charm (torture?) of old school D&D is gleaning at hints of play that appear in various nooks and crannies of rulebooks, supplements, and adventures. Here's one that I randomly ran into while reading module X1, "The Isle of Dread".
I think there's a "safe spaces" element as well. It's not just the system-- the system becomes a shorthand for a whole host of philosophies and genre conventions. Ideally, there'd be all sorts of communities at an atomic level and through federation (or something similar) we would join all the ones that interested us and crosspost things that extend over boundaries or confound the boundaries that we've drawn. That's some of the promise of a Lemmy (or Reddit) but the reality is when end up in walled off silos instead of interconnected gardens.
So the other element is player expectations. Me— I personally might because I tend to expect those things, having played many TTRPGs. My daughter, who has no such experiential baggage, might not.
Back to HP, I’m not an expert on the lore but, generally, all the wands are interchangeable, right? Other than the three master wands or whatever they’re called. So in that case, a wand, like a mundane tool, might not need stats/mechanics.
Ultimately, it’ll be on you to set up the context and sell the players on the concept to overcome any expectations.
Hey gang, I saw that we’ve got over 175 folks subscribed to the community (small steps for mankind but giant steps for us) and we’re now the third largest community on Lemm.ee!
Welcome aboard everyone! Let’s keep the positivity and good conversation going! I love that folks are initiating new conversations and taking part with excellent comments, links, and discussion!
One thing I have seen a bit of is downvoting. I know it’s probably a foolish errand to even ask this, and with federation, the height of futility, but can we try to use downvotes to express that a topic or comment is inappropriate or out of place and not that we disagree or just don’t like it? Let’s try to rid ourselves of some our bad habits from Reddit and not carry them forward.
That said, I couldn’t be more happy and proud of everyone here for coming in and lending a hand to build this community up in these early days!
Game on!
I’ve said that as well… the dice are not your friend!