WHAT IS SERIOUSNESS IN TTRPGS

    a new term that me and the party have came up with is being serious, which is the oppisite of slap happy. our dnd group as you know is competitive so we everything very serious which is good. sometimes, people are less than serious and are slap happy.

    my opinions on the both are very conflicted. on one hand, dnd is one of the hobbies where its seriousness of it is the fun. creating the immersive verisimilitude of the world is important, and i usually think that to be true. on the other hand, being slap happy is fun. why shouldnt you. its not like acting serious actually impacts anything.

    i think slap happiness comes from the same riskjoy as gambling and it also comes from the same place as carousing. every person engages in riskjoy. some people have addictive personality discorder and love riskjoy or some people are npcs are care little but riskjoy is a spectrum and slap happiness is a third up the spectrum and spending an entire paycheck gambling is up four fifths.

    my group is in the depths of great lengths of debate over our seriousness. one of us is over on slap happy land but pretends to be serious. another is a seriouser but definitely has their slap happy tendencies. our dm has sort of accepted our slap happy nature and it probably the most serious of us all. serious does not equate to good by the way, serious is just a way to play. i am a half serious slap happy apologist. i understand slap happy people. they are human. its okay to be slap happy sometimes, as long as you can perform some serious half of the time. i find myself in that equilibrium.

thinking lunch,

galdurian adventurist