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What is special, to you, about role playing games?

Started by Benoist, July 12, 2010, 07:26:35 PM

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#45
July 15, 2010, 12:18:29 PM
Quote from: two_fishes;393935holodecks would be co-opted by the porn industry within a matter of minutes.

Co-opted? I assume they'll be the ones who invent it. And good on them. Like I said, holodecks for RPG purposes still have the same problem that computer-online-worlds have, I'd have to learn how to program the fucking things and then make each little painstaking detail. I don't run a muck right now because its too much work, imagine if with the holodeck you'd have to add in every single fucking tree, bird, city street, etc.  
The only way it'd work for "finally surpassing the RPG" would be if it could take what I see in my head and instantly project it into reality with no work on my part.

Meanwhile, and until then, I'll be glad to use the Holodeck to have Deep Meaningful Relationships with particularly sexy computer programs.

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July 15, 2010, 12:53:57 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;394060Co-opted? I assume they'll be the ones who invent it. And good on them. Like I said, holodecks for RPG purposes still have the same problem that computer-online-worlds have, I'd have to learn how to program the fucking things and then make each little painstaking detail. I don't run a muck right now because its too much work, imagine if with the holodeck you'd have to add in every single fucking tree, bird, city street, etc.  
The only way it'd work for "finally surpassing the RPG" would be if it could take what I see in my head and instantly project it into reality with no work on my part.

Meanwhile, and until then, I'll be glad to use the Holodeck to have Deep Meaningful Relationships with particularly sexy computer programs.

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You are missing a trick and still thinking like a GM.

In the Holodeck world an AI would create and render the world and you would be a player. GMs would be the guys that design WoW dungeons now.

To be a GM you would indeed need to master the tech but further into the future even that can be manged down to .."give me a wooden glen, no a bit darker, okay, can we put a grassy mound over her and then stick a gate in it. Right first room.. " etc.. so designg your dungeon would be in a Walk-through gui interface when you would select stuff from a voice activated menu and you could see how it looked as you did it. Likewise in play the GM would be able to mod the dungeon adding and removing stuff via a voice activated link.

Should be a blast, roll on 2058....
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#47
July 15, 2010, 02:42:09 PM
AI holoventures...RPG,porno...I see some serious genre mixing there! :p
How would Exp. be handled hmmmm....?
Form the group wisely, make sure you share goals and means.
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Allow that the group, milieu and system will from an organic symbiosis.
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#48
July 15, 2010, 04:10:13 PM
Quote from: skofflox;394089AI holoventures...RPG,porno...I see some serious genre mixing there! :p
How would Exp. be handled hmmmm....?

Niven wrote a book covering this very subject...
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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