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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 11, 2015 8:15:08 GMT -8
Omg Stork I love marvels. Thank you for pointing it out to me.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 11, 2015 8:13:51 GMT -8
It gets more fun when we start talking about gaming systems like they are bands.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 10, 2015 18:39:13 GMT -8
I will pray for you sbloyd.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 10, 2015 8:28:46 GMT -8
You people are giving me a haddock
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 9, 2015 20:17:44 GMT -8
OK, so they have discovered there are actual Cybermen running around trying to convert the homeless to their cause. By convert I mean assimilate. The Cybermen have a goal to draw out the Doctor and try to force him to take them back to their own dimension. (Players don't know that part yet...)
Problem is, I have no clue what anyone else is doing save The Beetle from Marvel Comics (He said screw it and became a hero).
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 9, 2015 20:08:50 GMT -8
I am in for Easton, though weekends are horrible for me usually because I work every weekend (except Sunday night).
Sometimes I get a Saturday night off, but not often. I can check my schedule...
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 8, 2015 13:16:19 GMT -8
Ayslyn I know how you feel I used to even role play with magic cards... So does an RPG not need a gm? Have we ever seen another example of that?
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 8, 2015 12:13:15 GMT -8
Because it's me being all cute and asking questions.
We have answered some of this but not all I think. I don't remember anymore.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 8, 2015 10:19:40 GMT -8
As to why we are having this discussion, I just wonder what makes an RPG. plus I am fascinated by the role player/world builder type versus the role player.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 7, 2015 17:20:05 GMT -8
I'm nervous. I can't even think how I would adequately sort characters. All I run is campaigns. OK, I'm a coward. I admit it...
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 7, 2015 17:16:30 GMT -8
I've played some Dungeon World where we got to make up part of the world. And I had GMs that would ask similar questions as you do, D.T. Pints. Though I prefer to just keep concentrating on my character I have even had fun with a change of pace now and then.
But if we call Fate an RPG, why not Fiasco? Is it purely because there is no GM? There are still dice that even if they are rolled at the beginning you still try to take advantage of what is rolled. There are roles to be played and you are world building in character. It simply lacks a referee because everything you need is out in the open.
I am still on the side that fiasco is not an RPG but I can't get a compelling argument why without running up against what I have written above.
As for FATE and the dirty hippy crew, I still consider them RPGs, but just a different take on what it means to have a shared storytelling. Everyone is an author as well as a character.
What about a system makes it an RPG?
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 7, 2015 16:51:12 GMT -8
So D.T, you were a hippy before hippies became fashionable.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 7, 2015 10:38:50 GMT -8
Yeah kainguru I am already off the gm equals system track. I was more interested in points angry fm brought up about fate.
At what point does a role no longer become a role? For that matter do you even need a fm?(thinking fiasco) it is just idle musings in my head which happen to be matters of systems.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 7, 2015 5:49:42 GMT -8
Well how do you feel about fate and other hippy games that up the collaborative notch? How much of a role to you have to be immersed into for it to be a role playing game?
And thinking on this I am proven right about one thing finally. System does matter.
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Post by ericfromnj on Jul 6, 2015 19:00:24 GMT -8
I summon the dark names of those like Kainguru and some unemployed guy moving to Chicago.
IA! IA! C'THULHU F'TAUGN
BY ALL THAT IS DARK AND UNHOLY I SUMMON YOU, CREATIVE COWBOY!
For in my listening to the Angry GM talk about Fate not being an RPG, and how I personally prefer being immersed in one character.
Then I started thinking about how if I relinquish everything else, all that is left is the game system through the lens of a GM.
Then I thought HOLY FUCK OF FUCKS WHAT IF MOTHERFUCKING GM DOES EQUAL MOTHERFUCKING SYSTEM? GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
What have I become? I must listen to Iron Maiden while walking backwards and repeating the word "cunt" over and over again in some dada-istic ritual to cleanse the mind.
But what if in some weird way he is right?
Good gods...
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