Quote from: Peregrin;556693Was.  Time was not kind to Batman, unfortunately.

You're a guy please don't presume to tell me or any other woman what to consider what's "cute" or "attractive".

Quote from: Spike;556482you take that back!!!!!!

There's a banner ad for ya: "The RPGSite: Not a Complete Hellhole."

JG

Quote from: CRKrueger;556577He's from the UK.  They do that there.

There and Australia.

Both of which can claim to be the homeland of AC/DC.

JG

Quote from: John Morrow;556690See this thread:

http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=7931

Someone asked a question and someone on the site addressed it.
And Ghost Whistler seeming to be very obtuse about that fact is In My Opinion why he's catching shit.

JG

Quote from: John Morrow;556690See this thread:

http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=7931

I like that thread, in terms of defining applicability gaming theory to solving gaming problems, and feel it encourages a "don't tell us how to make a good game, show us how to make a good game using your theory" approach. This site solves practical problems. Problems of gaming philosophy are best solved elsewhere... and that's fine.

I genuinely don't feel that it defines "storygames" as such (And I'm in agreement that they are different to RPG's), or the categorisation of threads here; the discussion in the thread is certainly interesting, but doesn't ever hit that point. But like I said earlier, I'm happy enough with the rest of the site's discussion to endure a thread about one game I like having been moved to a different subforum.

Read 'em and weep, the dead-man's hand again.

Quote from: Gib;556683You either know not what you ask (in which case I'm sorry for what is about to happen)- or  you do (in which case, well played)

Either way, welcome to the RPG site.

Not trolling, honest!  Thank you Mr. Morrow...that thread gives me the info I need.

Quote from: Marleycat;556685Be nice Benoist he is asking honestly just as I did. Besides Val Kilmer is cute and "Doc" Holiday is awesome.

Welcome to RPGsite though it does look like you've lurked here for a long while.

I have lurked but enjoyed the debate that goes on here!

Quote from: Sacrosanct;556032So a poster cannot discuss a role playing game in the role-playing games forum because you think that it's too much like a storygame?

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;556036If it's tolerable that they can 'proselytize' in the other forum then they can do so in the rpg forum. Of course this is about marginalising discussion.

Guys, do you realize that if you use the "New Posts" button it will show you all the new threads regardless which board they are, so Pundit's organization of the forum is irrelevant?

Quote from: Gib;556070This forum was founded on and continues to be fueled by just being a dick, and for once, I'm not kidding.

Word.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;556087What happened over there is that they promoted Rand to a moderator and now he's banning people for things like starting a sentence on a new line rather than continue it in a more traditional paragraph form.

You can't make this stuff up. Rand never fails to amuse.

Quote from: Patrick;556814I have lurked but enjoyed the debate that goes on here!

Welcome to theRPGSite, Patrick!


-TGA

Quote from: Ladybird;556797I genuinely don't feel that it defines "storygames" as such (And I'm in agreement that they are different to RPG's), or the categorisation of threads here; the discussion in the thread is certainly interesting, but doesn't ever hit that point. But like I said earlier, I'm happy enough with the rest of the site's discussion to endure a thread about one game I like having been moved to a different subforum.

The point of the initial message is that games that deliberately break the landmarks are not really role-playing games and the vast majority of games that break the landmarks yet call themselves role-playing games are storygames. The dead giveaways are that their sales pitch talks about story or "narrative", their mechanics operate at a metagame rather than character perspective (and are often abstract "conflict resolution" mecanics), and are either one-trick-ponies designed to play only one type of scenario, which is so specific that it would be an adventure for a real role-playing game, or they try to define what the "story" will be about up front and even make that part of character creation.

Quote from: John Morrow;556825or they try to define what the "story" will be about up front and even make that part of character creation.

This is a topic that I think deserves it's own thread, I think.

Quote from: Patrick;556814I have lurked but enjoyed the debate that goes on here!

Welcome, Patrick.

I wear a cowboy hat now.
Cowboy hats are cool.

Quote from: Al Livingstone;556866I wear a cowboy hat now.
Cowboy hats are cool.

Indeed they are.