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RPGsite Darlings?

Started by RPGPundit, January 12, 2011, 12:41:38 AM

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two_fishes

#45
January 13, 2011, 12:00:10 PM
Gnomemurdered.

danbuter

#46
January 13, 2011, 12:01:34 PM
Most of the suggested games are successful, traditional, rpg's. Which is a very good sign.

Also, Carcosa is a great book. :p
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#47
January 13, 2011, 12:17:11 PM
Quote from: Novastar;432242Perhaps I, but that has more to do with the fact I haven't really looked at it, than anything else...

I haven't looked at it either. I was so underwhelmed by MRQI that I never looked at 2.
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#48
January 13, 2011, 12:21:13 PM
Quote from: Benoist;432476Well, you are a regular here too, mate...

Hence my thought about AD&D/BD&D being RPGSite darlings...

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#49
January 13, 2011, 12:28:17 PM
Quote from: Seanchai;432491Hence my thought about AD&D/BD&D being RPGSite darlings...

Seanchai
Well, no. You are part of the RPS Site too, and you are not overly enthusiastic about AD&D/BD&D. Ergo, these games are not for the RPG Site as a whole, you included, darlings.

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#50
January 13, 2011, 12:38:56 PM
Quote from: Benoist;432496Well, no. You are part of the RPS Site too, and you are not overly enthusiastic about AD&D/BD&D. Ergo, these games are not for the RPG Site as a whole, you included, darlings.

I don't think the "darling" qualifier should require absolute consensus. I'm willing to bet that a sizeable contingent of RPGnet posters dislike or don't care about Exalted, or Diaspora, or whatever it is that the hip kids are playing this week.

I for one used to post there regularly for some 3-4 years, and I don't give a shit about Exalted. Never did.

Benoist

#51
January 13, 2011, 12:43:23 PM
Well then, okay. I thought there had to be unchallenged consensus about it.

So I guess in that case games like Rules Cyclopedia, AD&D, OD&D may apply.

I don't consider the enthusiasm to be overhyped though. I just consider these versions to be the best D&D can give to the RPGdom, and D&D is the single best RPG that was ever conceived. So there.

Seanchai

#52
January 13, 2011, 12:46:33 PM
Quote from: Benoist;432502thought there had to be unchallenged consensus about it.

Why?

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#53
January 13, 2011, 12:46:50 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;432500I don't think the "darling" qualifier should require absolute consensus. I'm willing to bet that a sizeable contingent of RPGnet posters dislike or don't care about Exalted, or Diaspora, or whatever it is that the hip kids are playing this week.

I for one used to post there regularly for some 3-4 years, and I don't give a shit about Exalted. Never did.

Yeah, I post on RPG.net semi-regularly and I will not of my own free will play Exalted. It's still a darling.
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#54
January 13, 2011, 12:47:58 PM
Quote from: Seanchai;432505Why?

Seanchai
That's just what I imagined the definition of "darling" was. Apparently I'm wrong. It's cool. No problem. :)

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#55
January 13, 2011, 12:55:40 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;432334We're all about tough love, me old mucker. ;)

Dan, you old goat! Hope life's treating you well? :)

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#56
January 13, 2011, 01:27:54 PM
Quote from: Benoist;432502I don't consider the enthusiasm to be overhyped though. I just consider these versions to be the best D&D can give to the RPGdom, and D&D is the single best RPG that was ever conceived. So there.

Neither do I, which is why, when Pundit defined "darling" I removed my suggestions of (some version/clone of) D&D, Traveller, and Amber.

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#57
January 13, 2011, 01:29:14 PM
At least RPGSite doesn't answer the question "I'd like a gritty fantasy game" with "Use Exalted! The normal people rules are great!".
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#58
January 13, 2011, 03:20:56 PM
I think its part of the nature of the "darling" phenomenon (as it appears on rpg.net at least) that the fans of the game (at least at the time) are convinced its not just a "darling".

That said, I don't know that we have any darlings here in that same sense.

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January 13, 2011, 03:28:29 PM
The way I see it, "darling" is just a vaguely depreciative label for a popular game.

It is just a label, though. One man's darling is another man's classic.

RPGnet's are somewhat annoying in that they seem to cling to a new one every month, only to abandon it when the next comes up (the "darling of the month" phenomenon). We certainly do not have this over here, where -- as another poster put it -- most people are actually playing games, and for the most part, happy with the ones they own.

When something interesting is released (say, MRQII or Stars Without Number) we may have a thread or two, some discussion, etc. but nothing compared to the mass hysteria which grasps RPGnet.
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