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Originality in Fantasy: deeply over-rated?

Started by RPGPundit, September 02, 2006, 03:53:53 PM

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Vellorian

#45
September 06, 2006, 04:59:01 PM
Quote from: S. John RossDuh?

Duh.

I'll take that as concurrance.  ;)
Ian Vellore
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

S. John Ross

#46
September 06, 2006, 05:03:26 PM
Quote from: VellorianI'll take that as concurrance.  ;)

Is is. Not the huggiest kind, but definitely it is :)
S. John Ross
"The GM is not God ... God is one of my little NPCs."
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Vellorian

#47
September 06, 2006, 05:07:46 PM
Quote from: S. John RossIs is. Not the huggiest kind, but definitely it is :)

What, no hugs from my favorite "god wannabe"? ;)

You know, one of these days, I'm going to break down and start a thread asking your (and everyone else's, clearly, but your's specifically) critique of a game setting I'd quite like to write up one day.  Not a homebrew game, not something I've been playing, not something I've tinkered with, just a concept that has been growing and shaping in my mind to the point that I find myself "going there" when time allows and just looking around at all the things that are there...

Wow.  Talk about an off-topic, thread-jack!

[Plays a "resume topic" card]
Ian Vellore
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

beejazz

#48
September 07, 2006, 11:19:30 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditThere seems to be a very fine line between a fantasy setting that is "original" and one that is "too wierd to live" in the sense of being unplayable.

We know that people tend to say one thing and mean another about a lot of things: they claim they want healthier food, but they eat mcdonalds; they say that they don't like attack ads but we know those almost always work.

Could this be another one of those cases: Could it be that gamers who say they want "original" fantasy settings are actually meaning something else?

If so, what are they actually meaning?

RPGPundit
People both overhype originality for its own sake and fear anything actually original.
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