Quote from: Opaopajr;837683Don't feel the need to leave. Take a break if necessary. I know I've felt the 'out of sync with the community' feeling.

The challenge is adding the topics you want into the conversation. Many times they'll sink, but that's because controversy brings the most activity -- and rules bickering is some of the easiest controversy available. But waiting for others to shift the conversation to your interests is a very long waiting game.

I'm a setting fan. Been my big thing and one of the reasons I love TSR products (despite their controversy). Yet I know there is only so far I can go with certain audiences before our shared vocabulary falls apart. Some settings require more like minds than others.

Quote from: tzunder;837220I think that you may be a gamer.
What may not be is an internet game forum discussion/argument dude.

I say that since I recognise the games you describe.
Not all modern rpgs are like the loose Braunstein games, but all of them become like them at moments of magic.

RPGPundit has a 'thing' about story games, but in truth his games are as likely to yield stories as the more hand wavy goosey loosey game systems he calls story games. Don't fret it, his bark is worse than his bite and I suspect you'd like his games if you were next door.

The Internet is a weird place, go and visit a 'photography' forum and see how much they argue about lenses, cameras etc.. and yet some people there aren't taking photos.

Here people will rant about rule systems or the odd occult arguements that have filtered over from US politics. Thing is, when they get round a real table (or online system) with real people, the magic is still there.. stories get told, adventures happen, people bond, sagas are weaved, the shy talk and the weak soar on the wind.

Quote from: rawma;837700Excellent stuff. I saw Gary once at a convention (around 2001, I think), but while I might have liked to ask "how did you and Arneson differ in style?" I wouldn't have known how to ask that and not wander into the minefield of various disputes.

I remember the "Arnesonian" thing just because it was so odd, especially at the time but even now. Over the years I've heard "Gygaxian" to mean almost anything and everything, good or bad, but only after that occasion, and I don't recall hearing the word "Arnesonian" again until now.

I second all this advice.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;837877Ouch - that would have been bad! This kind of thing made Gary Con VII this past March a little odd for me; people would find up who I was, and then get a funny look on their faces as they tried to remember what they'd said in front of me...

Quote from: Old Geezer;838126Naw, I always look that way.