This looks like great fun.  (At least if you're a philosophy geek like me).

Doesn't appear to be someone's cultural studies thesis taking itself oh so seriously.  (Kant on the Borderlands!:))

QuoteTABLE OF CONTENTS-

Introduction – Rolling a Wisdom Check

I: Heroic Tier – The Ethical Dungeon-Crawler

1. David Merli, Heroes of Virtue?
2. Jon Cogburn, Beyond (Chaotic) Good and (Lawful) Evil?
3. Chris Bateman, Chaotic Good in the Balance
4. James and Mona Rocha, Elf Stereotypes
5. Heidi Olson, Dude, Where are the Girls?
6. Mark Silcox, Elegy for a Paladin
7. E.M. Dadlez, Being Evil
8. Brandon Cooke, Why (Fictionally) Being Evil is (Actually) Fine

II: Paragon Tier – Planes of Existence

9. Mark Silcox and Jonathan Cox, The Laboratory of the Dungeon
10. Jon Cogburn and Neal Hebert, Role-playing Magic and Paradoxes of the Inexpressible
11. Levi Bryant, The Intentionality of Objects
12. Timothy Morton, The Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons
13. Levi Bryant, A Role of the Dice
14. Monica Evans, The Secret Lives of Elven Paladins

III: Epic Tier – Leveling Up

15. Carl Ehrett and Sarah Worth, What Dungeons and Dragons is and Why We Do It
16. Pete Wolfendale and Tim Franklin, Kant on the Borderlands
17. Chris Bateman, Dungeons & Dragons & Dice &... Prop Theory for Role-Play
18. Adam Brackin, "YOU GOT YOUR GAMEPLAY IN MY ROLE-PLAY!"
19. Timothy Christopher, Justice is not Blind, Deaf, or Willing to Share its Nachos
20. Jason Rose, The Gunpowder Crisis
21. David Aldridge, "To Know My Character Better than He Knows Himself"

The Tiers are all wrong....its 1-30 man.

Aren't there suppose to be 3 tiers of 10 levels each?.....lol

no chapter devoted to "kill things and take their stuff?"

I'm actually half-tempted to buy this. I suspect a whole bunch of standard forum arguments are covered, by people with real Philosophy degrees.

Who's in charge of the sheep dip?

Damn, that actually looks like something I'd enjoy reading.

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That'd be Bruce.

Quote from: Dog Quixote;534385This looks like great fun.  (At least if you're a philosophy geek like me).

Doesn't appear to be someone's cultural studies thesis taking itself oh so seriously.  (Kant on the Borderlands!:))

I still want to minor in Philosophy, but I don't think I can pull that off.  In lieu of that, I am going to track down this book for pull quotes to show you lot I was right about all these topics all along.  

*Rolls d20*

*Adds Will save modifier to die roll*

*Compares to target number*

*Breaths a sigh of relief that he has made a Save vs Buy Immediately*

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Professa Bruce, heah!

Looks interesting!

As a philosophy prof and a long time RPG addict, I almost feel morally obliged to get this book (eventually). :pundit:

Seriously, dude, pseudo-intellectual wankery. RPGs are games.  Games are extremely important to our proper functioning, to our sense of wellbeing, they can even teach children some very basic skills.

But RPGs as instruction on ethics or metaphysics? Utter intellectualoid bullshit.  This product stinks of storygamers and forge pseudo-intellectuals, little dipshits who want to imagine they're great thinkers thinking great thoughts while they play RPGs because they'd otherwise feel ashamed about pretending to be an elf.

Fuck them.
They're intellectual and moral cowards. What can they possibly teach anyone about actual thinking? Clearly, they didn't play enough D&D to learn a thing or two about courage, or they'd have understood that you don't need to pretend you're fucking Sartre just to make up for embarrassment at playing a game (or for that matter that Sartre and his ilk were all a bunch of cunts in the first place).

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Seriously, dude, pseudo-intellectual wankery. RPGs are games.  Games are extremely important to our proper functioning, to our sense of wellbeing, they can even teach children some very basic skills.

But RPGs as instruction on ethics or metaphysics? Utter intellectualoid bullshit.  This product stinks of storygamers and forge pseudo-intellectuals, little dipshits who want to imagine they're great thinkers thinking great thoughts while they play RPGs because they'd otherwise feel ashamed about pretending to be an elf.

Fuck them.
They're intellectual and moral cowards. What can they possibly teach anyone about actual thinking? Clearly, they didn't play enough D&D to learn a thing or two about courage, or they'd have understood that you don't need to pretend you're fucking Sartre just to make up for embarrassment at playing a game (or for that matter that Sartre and his ilk were all a bunch of cunts in the first place).

RPGPundit

Alas; beaten to the punch by Pundy.

More manuals and guides helping people become great GMs and players, please. Less pointless wankery.

Isn't there an entire cottage industry surrounding these kinds of publications?  Philosophy and Lord of the Rings, Philosophy and Star Trek, Philosophy and Mad Men, etc.

It's all pop presentation of philosophy; it doesn't do any real harm, but it's also not exactly a serious endeavor.