LaFreeze
3rd Soul of Kimbery
I'm having some trouble lately. I'm playing D&D 3.5 with some friends of mine for the benefit of my brother who is away and we're trying to make sure he doesn't feel isolated while he is abroad.
However my group is very..... linear. When we were playing Science Fiction games they had no trouble at least trying to come up with crazy plot and plans. They caused distractions, improvised explosives, came up with clever lies, ran away when they were at a disadvantage and so on and so forth. They were not always good ideas mind you but they always had ideas.
However playing D&D they seem to think their only option is to stab things. They all play warrior classes, they don't look at equipment lists, they didn't even think to take a bow or something and they constantly forget about their own abilities or magic items unless they deal direct damage. We've had a huge number of fatalities due this mode of thought and they haven't seemed to change at all. When given the chance to get items they opted to get more weapons and armor despite a recent string of deaths do to poor saving throws and a simple failure to realize they were at a tactical disadvantage.
I really would like to play Exalted with this group but I fear they'll die even faster in exalted, like the first time someone makes a social attack when they all used social skills for dump stats. Any advice on trying to get the group into the right mindset to try Exalted?
However my group is very..... linear. When we were playing Science Fiction games they had no trouble at least trying to come up with crazy plot and plans. They caused distractions, improvised explosives, came up with clever lies, ran away when they were at a disadvantage and so on and so forth. They were not always good ideas mind you but they always had ideas.
However playing D&D they seem to think their only option is to stab things. They all play warrior classes, they don't look at equipment lists, they didn't even think to take a bow or something and they constantly forget about their own abilities or magic items unless they deal direct damage. We've had a huge number of fatalities due this mode of thought and they haven't seemed to change at all. When given the chance to get items they opted to get more weapons and armor despite a recent string of deaths do to poor saving throws and a simple failure to realize they were at a tactical disadvantage.
I really would like to play Exalted with this group but I fear they'll die even faster in exalted, like the first time someone makes a social attack when they all used social skills for dump stats. Any advice on trying to get the group into the right mindset to try Exalted?