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Preferred tone of RPG text

Started by VengerSatanis, May 02, 2017, 03:20:02 PM

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Dumarest

#30
May 04, 2017, 01:06:10 AM
No votes for comic book rules? Was it the He-Man game that did that?

Opaopajr

#31
May 04, 2017, 01:12:00 AM
High pitched and nasal, copiously pedantic, and a souçon of preachy moralism. :p
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Krimson

#32
May 04, 2017, 01:19:24 AM
Quote from: Opaopajr;960626High pitched and nasal, copiously pedantic, and a souçon of preachy moralism. :p

I'd love a Black Adder RPG.
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Voros

#33
May 04, 2017, 01:22:52 AM
Rules I would suggest as models:

- Moldvay/Cook/Metnzer
- Greg Costikyan
- Greg Stafford
- Sandy Petersen
- Steve Perrin

Very different in style but a very good example of the conversational style: Ken St. Andre

Whitewings

#34
May 04, 2017, 01:56:38 AM
Setting information should be in a tone that suits the intended feel of the setting; many different sorts of writing can be appropriate here, so long as the writing is comprehensible. A perfect example of the failure of this is Graceful Wicked Masks, from Exalted. I have a reading level rated "beyond doctoral," and read antiquated works like The Sceptical Chymyst or high-flown works such as The Books of the New Sun simply for enjoyment or interest. I found the book all but incomprehensible; getting any sense out of it required a good dozen reading, and that is simply absurd. Rules information should be clear and concise. Technical writing is appropriate here, a lesson Exalted could stand to learn.

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#35
May 10, 2017, 12:59:38 AM
I'm not exactly sure what my tone is (I hope maybe something along the lines of 'interesting History book'). I know I really dislike text that tries very hard to be cool or hip or edgy.
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#36
May 10, 2017, 05:31:41 PM
Crisp is preferred, but pseudo-historical writing is boring unless you're using common parlance and colloquialism to bring it back to earth. That's how you connect to readers.
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May 11, 2017, 09:14:45 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;961555I'm not exactly sure what my tone is (I hope maybe something along the lines of 'interesting History book'). I know I really dislike text that tries very hard to be cool or hip or edgy.

From the Arrows of Indra preview I'd say "interesting History book" or even "interesting anthropology book" is a good description.

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#38
May 13, 2017, 12:52:06 AM
Quote from: Tod13;961695From the Arrows of Indra preview I'd say "interesting History book" or even "interesting anthropology book" is a good description.

Good! Mission accomplished, then.
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