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What's in a name?

Started by The Traveller, January 09, 2013, 06:53:59 AM

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jorec_9856

#30
January 12, 2013, 11:35:30 AM
hello frendz
                 i m new in forum.i want to know any entertainment in this.

flyingmice

#31
January 12, 2013, 11:46:49 AM
Quote from: Piestrio;617066We need to some up an entirely new word, like flampth.

So what's your favorite flampth?

I could live with flampth! :D

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#32
January 13, 2013, 02:40:37 PM
Quote from: talysman;616987Use the name the hobby had before it was renamed "roleplaying games": Adventure Games.

But that encompassed an even wider field. At least in Germany it (translated as "Abenteuerspiele") was used for everything from Warhammer Fantasy Battle (1st edition) to Talisman to Battletech to D&D/Das Schwarze Auge.

The Magazines ZauberZeit/Nautilus/Kartefakt made extensive use of it and tried to establish it for the wider hobby. Around the year 2000 the MTG distributor Amigo Spiele started importing US RPGs as well, and used "Abenteuerspiele" for the whole segment of RPGs, CCGs, Avalon Hill games, and miniatures.

A few years ago Settembrini coined the term "Abenteuer Rollenspiele" ("Adventure Roleplaying Games" or rather "Adventure Role Games") for our (old-school-ish) style of games.
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#33
January 14, 2013, 03:23:20 PM
Quote from: The Traveller;617020Shareplay
Groupgames
Shared Adventure Games (SAG, heh)

Those are all horrible names.

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#34
January 14, 2013, 03:24:49 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;617108D&D seems like common usage amongst people who are vaguely aware of RPGs but not the variety.
When my friends' kids asked me to run 'D&D' for them they had no specific ideas except that it was a fantasy game of 'let's pretend'. I didn't get this at first but then I just told them we were gonna play this flavor of 'D&D' called 'Stormbringer' (which my homebrew is based on) and everything was fine.
Same thing for an older friend of mine who said she'd played 'D&D' back in her youth... but it turns out she was playing Vampire.
So I think coopting the brand name to something more generic might work... the way it did for Kleenex and Jello and Aspirin and Escolator and Heroin and Videotape... etc.
That 'baggage' of Satanic hysteria is, if anything, a bonus.

Agreed.

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#35
January 14, 2013, 03:42:27 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;617108That 'baggage' of Satanic hysteria is, if anything, a bonus.
Ian Livingstone likes to tell an anecdote about how once over here in the UK some fundamentalist lady tried to whip up hysteria over Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by claiming that after her son started playing them he ended up levitating. As in demonic forces were making him hover in the air.

Apparently, sales soared after that.
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#36
January 14, 2013, 04:06:40 PM
Quote from: Warthur;618025Ian Livingstone likes to tell an anecdote about how once over here in the UK some fundamentalist lady tried to whip up hysteria over Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by claiming that after her son started playing them he ended up levitating. As in demonic forces were making him hover in the air.

Apparently, sales soared after that.
Badum-tish! Haha. Seriously though I was referring to the comic book guy baggage. WW games have a much sexier demographic as a rule, and yet they also fall under the heading of roleplaying games.
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#37
January 15, 2013, 05:54:18 PM
Quote from: Warthur;618025Ian Livingstone likes to tell an anecdote about how once over here in the UK some fundamentalist lady tried to whip up hysteria over Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by claiming that after her son started playing them he ended up levitating. As in demonic forces were making him hover in the air.

Apparently, sales soared after that.

This. If only we could fucking get this again!

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#38
January 15, 2013, 06:03:11 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;618444This. If only we could fucking get this again!

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Real easy, turn your magick thread into a game and sock it on some christian fundamentalist forums. I do believe the poster was being ironical though.
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"What else are you meant to do with dark and dangerous powers?"
A concise overview of GNS theory.
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#39
January 16, 2013, 02:43:21 AM
Not at all. In general Satan controversies generate far more sales than they lose.
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

The Traveller

#40
January 16, 2013, 06:44:36 AM
Genuinely Pundit you're sitting on a gold mine with the Magick thread, take that slightly sinister persona to the next level. The day you have the patriot preachers cursing you as a subversive is the day you've made it. Also it would be fun to watch the cognitive dissonance amongst the wiccans over on the big purple.
"These children are playing with dark and dangerous powers!"
"What else are you meant to do with dark and dangerous powers?"
A concise overview of GNS theory.
Quote from: that muppet vince baker on RPGsIf you care about character arcs or any, any, any lit 101 stuff, I\'d choose a different game.

The Traveller

#41
January 17, 2013, 06:23:42 AM
Legendary games
Fablegames
Campfire games
Mythgames
Dice Adventures
bleh
"These children are playing with dark and dangerous powers!"
"What else are you meant to do with dark and dangerous powers?"
A concise overview of GNS theory.
Quote from: that muppet vince baker on RPGsIf you care about character arcs or any, any, any lit 101 stuff, I\'d choose a different game.

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#42
January 18, 2013, 07:30:02 PM
Quote from: The Traveller;618600Also it would be fun to watch the cognitive dissonance amongst the wiccans over on the big purple.

This alone makes me profoundly tempted...

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#43
January 18, 2013, 07:37:48 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;619678This alone makes me profoundly tempted...

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Do it! Fuck yes, you know there's a savage appetite for it out there. Hell I'll even sock the xtians for you gratis! Well maybe not, but that's the biggest free marketing machine ever dreamed of right there.
"These children are playing with dark and dangerous powers!"
"What else are you meant to do with dark and dangerous powers?"
A concise overview of GNS theory.
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#44
January 19, 2013, 02:12:25 PM
Quote from: The Traveller;619681Do it! Fuck yes, you know there's a savage appetite for it out there. Hell I'll even sock the xtians for you gratis! Well maybe not, but that's the biggest free marketing machine ever dreamed of right there.

Maybe, but I'm not convinced we can get them with something like this.  After all, it wasn't really any "real occult" stuff that got them riled up in the first place, it was just nonsense. And they've been harping on about said nonsense for 30 years now... what I mean is, to them, D&D has never stopped being satanic, they just put it on a backburner compared to other shit they care more about like gays adopting kids or teletubbies being gay or the government funding teletubbies.

I don't know if just saying "look! Occult RPG!" would be enough to make them come running.

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