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RP 'Sheeple': WAKE UP!   Message List  
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Re: [role_playing_for_dummies] Re: RP 'Sheeple': WAKE UP!

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Robin <robinvoigt@...> wrote:
Here is where I point out that while that may be true for some of the
people on here bellyaching about round robin excercises with no rhyme
or reason, some of us actually do incorporate actual systems into the
games we play, even when we do them online. Sitting with cheetos at a
tabletop is no more valid a way to play a game.

Well, you could say that, but then you'd be caterwauling about something that's been sitting on the list for almost exactly a month, without having addressed any of the issues which the original poster, other posters, or myself actually stated in the process of discussion. You have, to put it gently, murdered baby electrons in their cradled to write a message which has absolutely no useful, qualitative content while simultaneously looking like a fatally-cranially-engorged prat.

Now that that's out of the way, do you actually have something substantiative to add? Possibly something about what kind of resolution systems your "games" involve, how they avoid the issues raised by the original poster or how they succumb to them regardless (and thus providing counter-evidence of my supposition), or something of that ilk?

Oh, yes, and buggeration, if you must top-post, at least trim the bloody reply. We worked that process out with the second email ever sent back in the 60's. Give it a go, it makes the rough splatters of flung poo on the wall marginally easier to read.

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Fri Nov 7, 2008 10:27 pm

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RP 'Sheeple': WAKE UP! Let me begin by saying that I am rather disappointed with much of the state of RPing today. I feel that people have lost their lust and...
Nico Minoru
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Oct 6, 2008
3:48 pm

A lot more of these groups are destined to fail for another reason. You ever seen how many one or two line post role playing games that are out there? Heaven...
Nichole
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Oct 6, 2008
3:53 pm

A problem that I see as being just as big, has to be, without a doubt, moderators of these games that ask for multiple revisions of a person's character...
Sue
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Oct 6, 2008
4:14 pm

Those one or two line clubs put together by thirteen year olds hardly qualify as being role playing games, in my opinion. One of the first things that I do,...
Emma
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Oct 6, 2008
4:23 pm

... Is this where I step in and point out that what you ladies are describing really aren't role-playing games? I think that's my usual role here, punnily ...
Alexander Williams
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Oct 7, 2008
7:12 pm

Here is where I point out that while that may be true for some of the people on here bellyaching about round robin excercises with no rhyme or reason, some of...
Robin
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Nov 7, 2008
7:42 pm

... Well, you could say that, but then you'd be caterwauling about something that's been sitting on the list for almost exactly a month, without having ...
Alexander Williams
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Nov 7, 2008
11:23 pm

... having ... Boy I dont know who was ruder, Robin or you. I already know you have a prejudice against PBEM's, and Robin does have a point about how its not...
Nichole
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Nov 7, 2008
11:26 pm

... I find the insinuation that online games are not a valid way to role play insulting. Or the insinuation that every game online is the same, and has no...
Robin
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Nov 7, 2008
11:36 pm

Well where I see your point, dont make my admonishments about being polite to each other as successful as the Hindenburg, get me? Respectfully discuss this...
Nichole
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Nov 7, 2008
11:40 pm

... I dont post much but seriously people, this is not worth argueing about....
aldriya
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Nov 7, 2008
11:54 pm

While I am happy to know that I am not the only one who has seen the recent decay in text based RPGing, I think we are both looking different problems. When...
Nico Minoru
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Nov 20, 2008
1:13 pm

... Adding systems isn't going to solve the problem of a lack of creativity which you seem to actually be complaining about. Have you ever tried it? A system...
Nichole
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Nov 20, 2008
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