Quote from: YamoIt's more the tone of her work (it's fruitier than a Wiccan faerie vampyre sipping absinthe while browsing the discount cape rack at Hot Topic) combined with the horrid fawning from her creepy fans.

I see what you mean about the horrid fawning from her creepy fans

QuoteI rather like Rebecca.

Yeah. Like I said, I honestly don't like her work or her hardcore fanboys, but she conducts herself fine online and I'm sure she's very nice in person.

Quote from: YamoFor what it's worth, she's not *really* a lunatic, in the sense that she seems like an awful, crazy person when she posts.

No, she's a lunatic because SHE IS COMPLETELY FUCKING BATSHIT CRAZY.  If you ever meet her IRL, shoot to kill.  Don't let her get a hold of you.

You think I am joking?

http://imago.hitherby.com/

Specifically:

http://imago.hitherby.com/archives/000062.php

I double dog dare you bitches to read that and remain sane yourselves...

Quote from: CyberzombieI double dog dare you bitches to read that and remain sane yourselves...

Ha!

At least the blog is free. That's nothing compared to buying one of her books and realizing that you just paid for that.

Quote from: YamoHa!

At least the blog is free. That's nothing compared to buying one of her books and realizing that you just paid for that.

My DM bought the Fair Folk book and refused to stop reading it until he made some sort of logical sense out of it.  After 4 readings, plus consultations on the WW message boards, he finally figured out what that lunatic bitch had *meant* to write...

I was wondering where gleichman went after the big Casanova thread way back in 2003.

Quote from: SpookI was wondering where gleichman went after the big Casanova thread way back in 2003.

Away. It was becoming very clear that RPGNet was not a place that I should be.

Quote from: GunhildaCompletely unrestricted free speech is not a good thing.

I don't know if that's entirely true.  The Usenet newsgroup rec.games.frp.advocacy managed to be very productive for several years, despite periodic hostile messages, without any moderation at all.  It was kept on track by a dedicated core of posters who would take everything anyone said seriously rather than feeding the flames, which would eventually encourage even the worst trolls to leave.  And I'm talking about the post-Eternal September Usenet, too.

If there is moderation, I would personally prefer it to be the sort that's on ENWorld, where the objective is to put a grandmother-friendly face on the hobby.  Basically, I think RPGpundit makes a good point about "lawn-crappers" in hobbies and let's just say that I'd rather a parent researching role-playing on the Internet because their child has expressed interest in it find ENWorld rather than RPGnet, this site, or even RPGpundit's blog.

Quote from: YamoHa!
 
At least the blog is free. That's nothing compared to buying one of her books and realizing that you just paid for that.

In that light, it's sort of a public service.
 
Yep. Of the 4 big "rpg.net darling" games of Wushu, Nobilis, Weapons of the Gods, and Exalted, she is responsible for 3 of them. Meaning roughly 75% of rpg.net's favorite games are pretty much written at least partially in Pure Fucking Gibberish, Batshit Dialect. That's pretty much proof enough that the place pretty much has little basis in reality in regards to this hobby anymore. There's still some good stuff on there, but the amount of shit one has to wade through to get to it continues to rise exponentially.

Quote from: CyberzombieMy DM bought the Fair Folk book and refused to stop reading it until he made some sort of logical sense out of it.  After 4 readings, plus consultations on the WW message boards, he finally figured out what that lunatic bitch had *meant* to write...

I haven't read the Fair Folk book, but you could make the case that being crazy would be an asset when it comes to writing about the personifications of chaos.

Quote from: MaddmanI rather like Rebecca.  Sure Nobilis is pretentious as all fuck, but it's supposed to be.  She's one of the funniest people in gaming as well.  Here's a quote from an RPGnet thread about script immunity, with everyone debating if it made for a good game or not if the players knew their characters couldn't die.

And then there's this

I think she mostly offends because she doesn't take this stuff too seriously. It's strange, really: She's villified by people who talk shit about how they just want to play and have fun and not have any artistic pretensions, but of course, a large part of her work is making fun of artistic pretensions by having fun and playing with them, making them work against their original intentions. Like the bit with the duck being a joke at the Matrix's expense.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstIn that light, it's sort of a public service.
 
Yep. Of the 4 big "rpg.net darling" games of Wushu, Nobilis, Weapons of the Gods, and Exalted, she is responsible for 3 of them. Meaning roughly 75% of rpg.net's favorite games are pretty much written at least partially in Pure Fucking Gibberish, Batshit Dialect. That's pretty much proof enough that the place pretty much has little basis in reality in regards to this hobby anymore. There's still some good stuff on there, but the amount of shit one has to wade through to get to it continues to rise exponentially.

Do you have any examples of where rules text she wrote was unclear, or is your particular boat piloted by pure invective and no substance?

Quote from: shooting_diceDo you have any examples of where rules text she wrote was unclear, or is your particular boat piloted by pure invective and no substance?

I'm doggy-paddling.

Off the top of my head, how about:

Weapons of The Gods, pp. 1-384, inclusive?

(And you forgot vitriol). :heh:

Quote from: Zachary The FirstI'm doggy-paddling.

Off the top of my head, how about:

Weapons of The Gods, pp. 1-384, inclusive?

(And you forgot vitriol). :heh:

Can you cite an actual rule or game system that is unclear?

THE ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING FAIR FOLK RULE BOOK, DUMBASS.

The *entire* thing was unclear.  No specific rule, no specific nothing: we're talking front to back, the rules are completely fucking obfuscated with her insanity.

Jesus Fucking Hallmark Christ.  Did you LOOK at the links I provided?  She writes that sort of shit in rule books, too.  I may love Exalted, but she is the fucking bane of the game.