Quote from: Erik Boiellea) Pursuing your ambitions is (maybe) good for you, but it's (certainly) bad for the company. Some of your ambitions are REALLY bad for the company, like "to be pardoned." Others, like "to spit in the eye of God," will just bring grief down on the whole ship.

Before I left the corporate world for a life of adventure and scholarship, virtually every boss I ever had gave me a version of this speech. Strange to me that it's a center piece in a pirate RPG- but then again, I worked in banking and high tech, so maybe its not such a stretch , after all.

Well, on a pirate ship all the employees get to vote on whos boss, and in a brutal enviroment violence is never going to be far away, so instead of dreaming about shanking your co-workers you can do it. And the game starts off

But I'd suggest that, people being people, everyone in the world is gonna recognise it.

Bloody primate group dynamics. You and me baby we ain't nothing but mammels...]







Maybe one can adapt it for roleplaying forums:-

Ron Edwards has the ambition to be remembered as the guy who changed roleplaying forever. The Pundits ambition is to be noticed . TonyLB wants everyone to get along and play fun games.

If someone gets Mod Powerz they can have someone banned, effectively silencing them.

Then theres some mechanic stuff. Edwards and The Pundit have high Devil stats, meaning they can't do anything without pissing someone off. TonyLB has a low Devil stat, so he doesn't piss people off, but being less forceful also can't get as much done.

And stuff.

I, naturally, am perfect and above such things.

Quote from: Erik BoielleSound interesting. But to get there we needed to trawl through all the bull about worty, emotional art.

Bloody forge swine. They are their own worst enemy, I tell you.

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TGA

What you guys really need to do is rewrite the dialog on the Chick tract "Dark Dungeons" to be about Ron and GNS.

C'mon, that would be hilarious.

(I don't know, might be dumb. I just have the line "You have a coherent Creative Agenda now. You can do *real* magic." stuck in my head now.)

Hmmmm - The evil ones do have something of a thing for communist chic.

Maybe one could play with that a little:-







Facists!

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Facists!

*snort*

Ooh, ooh, that's me!  The guy with the huge bald-spot (i.e. the top of my head ) and the owlbear T-shirt, closest to the camera in the Play Collective shot ... that's me!

Quote from: TonyLBOoh, ooh, that's me!  The guy with the huge bald-spot (i.e. the top of my head ) and the owlbear T-shirt, closest to the camera in the Play Collective shot ... that's me!

If it wasn't so late you'd have been cut out and stuck in front of some big red banners. Or something.

:-)

Quote from: The Good AssyrianMe -->:piss2:

Why, oh why would you do that to that cute little monkey? :eek:

!i!

Quote from: SweeneyWhat you guys really need to do is rewrite the dialog on the Chick tract "Dark Dungeons" to be about Ron and GNS.

C'mon, that would be hilarious.

No.  What we need is the Chick tract "Dark Dungeons" written from the perspective of Ron and GNS with Ron in the role of Chick, warning us of the horrors of incoherent play and the brain damage that occurs from traditional role-playing games.

We already have that.



Uncle Ronny would say that Marcie has been deprotagonised.

Ron Edwards is Jack Chick.

Is it wrong that I always thought the DM in that comic was kind of attractive?
All she needs is a good hug and she won't be so evil.

 A little GURPS play and she might quite tolerable.

Quote from: KoltarIs it wrong that I always thought the DM in that comic was kind of attractive?

Not at all.

Of course, "she" is really a guy.  Look closely.

!i!

Of course. Cross-dressing is the work of the Devil, just like D&D!

Here Jack Ron Edwards-Chick tells us about how immersion in your character is dangerous:




and later he tells how bad attempts at narrativism lead to brain damage:



And here, well, "Jesus", "GeeEnEss", similar, no?



See? The parallels are striking. I think that Jack Chick really is Ron Edwards. Or at least they're lovers.

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What a tasteless comparison. ... ... Soooo, which of the three fellows is Narrativism, which is Simulationism, and which is Gamism? :haw: