Gloriously Missing the Reference

>>50414808
tldr but from the amount you wrote I'm guessing we're dealing with some hardcore autism.

>>50414831
TLDR: he played Batman: Arkham demo without realizing it was about Batman. Suddenly epiphany that it was batman made him realize that hey, if you approach it from a new angle, it's a completely new experience.

I hoped my question would have functioned as a tldr, but:
>>50414852
Basically this, only it was just the video demo.

>>50414831
>I'm guessing we're dealing with some hardcore autism
Eh, only when I'm posting online.
I think in ways that are stupidly detailed and convoluted to talk like.
It tends to come out a bit when I post.
Irl I'm damn affable.

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My DM's modus operandi is to throw as many disguised references into his campaigns as he can.

One of the more recent ones I recognized was the time he made Samus Aran an NPC in a fantasy setting.

>>50414808
I've never experienced this myself, but I've tried to recreate this experience, of making what would ordinarily be familiar seem fresh and new. Mostly I think I've failed.

One time, though, in a puzzle-themed horror campaign a friend of mine was running at the time (only lasted a couple sessions before dying, but was super fun while it lasted), There was a puzzle in which we were in a dark room with a metal grate as a floor, and the floor was the last thing we noticed. Beneath the floor was a visible machine that was involved in the puzzle, and it came as a huge surprise when we finally noticed what was right under our noses. It's not really the same, but it's another interesting experience that I think tabletop games create better than almost any other medium of narration, and I thought I'd bring it up.

>>50415001
>damn affable

>>50415229
>My DM's modus operandi is to throw as many disguised references into his campaigns as he can.
This could be good fun but it'd also easy to slip into a constant gag that isn't always appropriate.
You don't want players looking for references instead of immersing themselves in the game.

>>50415894
>I've tried to recreate this experience, of making what would ordinarily be familiar seem fresh and new. Mostly I think I've failed.
That's how I feel a lot.
But you gotta keep trying.

Your example of the puzzle room reminds me of one of the difficult parts of implementing something the players would immediately recognize if you told them straight out.
It can be difficult to give them enough description to faithfully describe the scene without giving it away.
I remember there was a story some anon told where his GM and co-GM went to absurd lengths describing things visually to the point that the party, a group of nomadic barbarians in a new land, spent an agonizing length of time figuring out that the strange substance falling from the sky was, in fact, snow.
And a similar length of time figuring out that a mysterious assemblage of stones at the top of a hill was, in fact, a wall.

>>50416488
>>damn affable
Indeed.

>>50416640
>a story some anon told
Found it:

>Once me and some friends played with a pair of duo DM's who had this habit of never saying what something was.

>For example; it was snowing. What did they say? 'white cold flakes of something fell from the sky' one said. Being as we just left a campaign I was running, which are notorious for traps and difficulty(or so they tell me, Ive never had a player die at the time, so not sure how true that is) So we spend the first few minutes making sure, in this strange land we have never been to before, and that the DM's refuse to tell us anything about, that the white flakes falling from the sky were not some kind of poison, bits of white meat from something that got ground to dust in the sky, or something else horrible. After a few minutes of probing we finally got one of the dm's to relent and say, its snow, just snow.

>Then there was a fort on a hill. Rather then saying there was a fort on the hill, we got a 20 minute explanation about how the land curved upward, and eventually led to brick after brick sitting atop one another in even stacks covered in moss. After we got the explanation one guy said he was going to examine the brick pile. The DM's were confused, asking 'what pile?' 'the one covered in moss you guys just spent half an hour talking about' The look on their faces, like we just said the dumbest thing in the world. So, rather then being direct or saying 'it is a fort on a hill' or 'what part of what I said made you think it was a pile of bricks?' Or something reasonable, they said fuck it, repeat the description, but with more detail about the bricks, and the way they were set up. this time I guessed, 'is it a wall?' To which they both responded 'duh'.

>>50416835
That seems like it would get incredibly annoying fast.

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>>50416835
The thing is, even po-dunk, remote-ass Barbarians are going to grasp the concept of "wall" pretty quickly, and are going to recognize snow easily too.
Reminds me of what one old D&D player called "zipper Dming", that is, forcing you to take damage when you fall over because you didn't specify your character zipped his fly and so he skins his wiener.
Not to say it can't be fun to exploit what players take for granted or assume, but seriously, the adventurerers are at least semi-competent human beings.

>>50416916
>>50416974
Precisely
I've flirted with this when introducing anachronistic elements into a fantasy game, but that level of obtuse bs is faggotry.

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>>50415229
>disguised references

>>50414808
>I have the sort of mind that follows along tracks until they reach their logical end.
well aren't you just precious

>>50417926
That's the only reason to use it, if you're doing some barrier peaks shit it's appropriate

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>>50420395
>well aren't you just precious