tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post8030338571383718481..comments2024-03-28T00:53:49.609-07:00Comments on PLANET ALGOL: Requisite Rant Regarding Systems, Story, Tastes and the LikeBlairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884401206802336531noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-73681055318455144132010-03-09T13:45:19.276-08:002010-03-09T13:45:19.276-08:00Yuck i cant eat potato with rice stuck on itYuck i cant eat potato with rice stuck on itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-64553753703212796752010-03-07T10:52:40.971-08:002010-03-07T10:52:40.971-08:00There're people who are bored and have nothing...There're people who are bored and have nothing to do but join the debate team and argue with everyone else over what's "fun". I just got sick of it. After reading the hundred-thousandth "I don't like game X/style of play Y/concept Z because..." I had that epiphany of "I couldn't give a crap what you do or do not like." I realized people couldn't give a crap about what I like either, so I shut up.<br /><br />And that's what any and all online and offline debates are about: bored people talking endlessly about nonsense, about how what they like is better than everyone else.<br /><br />I saw one person saying "We ain't bored, we have passion." And it occured to me: your only passion is typing opinion peices on the 'net and arguing with other people? You obviously are BORED or you would be off doing something really fun, like playing a game or (even more astounding) doing something face-to-face with another human being.<br /><br />The reason people go in circles "discussing" (slinging feces at each other) is because their employer, library or school gives them free acces to the net and they don't have anything fun to do. They skip out on work or school to cruise the net.<br /><br />Some of the people who sat online flinging out their comments and posts every few minutes annoyed me until I realized they were helpless, compulsive idiots so addicted to the 'net they'd rather be online yanking off.<br /><br />I've stopped going online to watch children squeal at each other. I get enough of that crap in real life.<br /><br />I find it far more rewarding to turn the 'Net off most of the time, and only go online if I'm bored or want to look something up. I've gotten far more from gaming offline than I've ever gained online.<br /><br />Let the obsessive, crazy whackos sit online obsessively posting. Keeps them off the streets! They aren't a part of my gaming group or the hobby in general (they are on the net making posts, not playing); their endless blithering nonsense is meningless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-25495171074328826292010-03-07T02:44:14.034-08:002010-03-07T02:44:14.034-08:00I just got back from running a CoC session, and fr...I just got back from running a CoC session, and frankly, I gotta tell ya -- maybe my players are just too awesome at role-playing it up when 'the stars are right', but tonight was 8-9 hours of near seamless, coherent and thoroughly entertaining story telling role-play (with the occasional intrusion of percentile rolls) -- and no one died or even came close to injury (although two characters suffered minor sanity losses from separate non mythos encounters). I ran the session a little different than the book suggests though, treating it more like a sandbox game in Arkham, rather than a tightly woven narrative typical of many (if not every) published CoC adventure, but it worked extremely well. <br />All that said, I can't disagree with you one bit about role-play within ANY given system. My players developed their 'story' with their choices and dialogue with very little for me to do but describe where they were and voice who they were talking to ... it was a thing of beauty, man.<br /><br />By the way, Long time lurker around these parts ... and I absolutely LOVE this blog!<br /><br />JM.John Miskimenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05903992788094485597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-91492199714736758292010-03-07T00:34:08.977-08:002010-03-07T00:34:08.977-08:00Like Yesmar said above: "I can make a story i...Like Yesmar said above: "I can make a story in any RPG." All this arguing is pretty silly and pointless. Whether a particular person prefers a specific level of simplicity / complexity in their rules, that is their choice, not something that anyone else gets a vote on. It's personal preference and carries no moral weight in and of itself. It's their choice. No more, no less.<br /><br />Perhaps some of this ongoing acrimony stems from the apprently implicit notion that all OSR-people have rejected the modern versions of the game and are chasing after a non-existent golden age. Completely and utterly false. <br /><br />You don't have to completely reject the new in order to go back to the older, classic stuff that you wish to spend some quality time exploring all over again.<br /><br />All this bickering was stupid twenty years ago, it's doubly a waste of time now.netherwerkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08361800925618339097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-84727320281308804832010-03-07T00:22:09.466-08:002010-03-07T00:22:09.466-08:00"Rah-ra-ah-ah-ahh
Roma-roma-ma
Gaga-ooh-la-la..."Rah-ra-ah-ah-ahh<br />Roma-roma-ma<br />Gaga-ooh-la-la<br />Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"<br /><br />Now that I know that Lady Gaga is a cultist, I feel like the world has suddenly come into sharper focus...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648499022366444265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-39818283094872214782010-03-06T21:33:02.163-08:002010-03-06T21:33:02.163-08:00I'm down with that. I can make story in any RP...I'm down with that. I can make story in any RPG. (And that includes The Spawn of Fashan and F.A.T.A.L.) (And for what it's worth, I like Carcass and Lady Gaga.)Yesmarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12574297955275829831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-22146878441056600212010-03-06T18:37:30.600-08:002010-03-06T18:37:30.600-08:00Word!Word!Jeffrey Runokivihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10067752574382856219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-20045622602065519182010-03-06T18:35:08.888-08:002010-03-06T18:35:08.888-08:00I mostly agree, however, it is easier to run Labyr...I mostly agree, however, it is easier to run Labyrinth Lord or Barbarians of Lemuria that Pathfinder, if for no other reason than I cannot remember every feat and half-feat and skill rank for everyone and the monsters.<br /><br />That makes it challenging and detailed, though, but not impossible and the game is still fun. <br /><br />Maybe it is just easier to run games lighter on the rules after a couple of beers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-23931636124624303042010-03-06T16:59:11.851-08:002010-03-06T16:59:11.851-08:00Rah-ra-ah-ah-ahh
Roma-roma-ma
Gaga-ooh-la-la
Cthul...Rah-ra-ah-ah-ahh<br />Roma-roma-ma<br />Gaga-ooh-la-la<br />Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn<br /><br />(100% agree)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886547051691715141.post-36664126968005624782010-03-06T15:11:02.307-08:002010-03-06T15:11:02.307-08:00I completely agree with your "let everyone ha...I completely agree with your "let everyone have fun the way they like" philosophy. I've never understood the yearning to have one's preferred way of gaming somehow "proved" to be the empirically correct one.<br /><br />On the other hand, I'm quite certain the Ducks Unlimited folks are anti-parrot to the bone.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com