I have done this at conventions by blind vote. I would not give "best RPGer" awards at the table, but in games with bennies or action dice, I do give them out instantly for cool ideas, actions or roleplay.

Quote from: RPGPundit;629981and become a consultant with direct influence over the next edition of D&D the way you did...

Considering how lame D&DN is turning out, you may not want to trumpet that one too much.

Quote from: Spinachcat;630005Considering how lame D&DN is turning out, you may not want to trumpet that one too much.

If it's successful he'll claim all credit, if not he'll claim that he warned them and he was stonewalled. In either case, it will likely be a lie.

It's a win-win for him.

But I will say this, I'd be ashamed to claim any of his 'achievements'.

Quote from: gleichman;630013If it's successful he'll claim all credit, if not he'll claim that he warned them and he was stonewalled. In either case, it will likely be a lie.

It's a win-win for him.

But I will say this, I'd be ashamed to claim any of his 'achievements'.

Genius is sometimes mistaken for iconoclastic Madness, and there are savants misunderstood even by leanred and the wise.

I disagree with Pundit often, and he with me, but we generally do so from a standpoint of mutual respect. Bradford and I have disagreed, and John Morrow and I went through numerous long threads.

You remind me more of AM, or especially Seanchai.  Your viewpoint unchanged or unsullied by experience or logical disourse, blithely unwilling to engage in any part of a conversation that is inconvenient.  I do get the feeling that it would not matter what Pundit or his real-life persona accomplished, you'd still dismiss it.  Literally, anything he accomplished, no matter how worthy or useful or difficult, because that is how you work.  
However, I can see why your attitude and  Modus Operandi has to be that everyone else misunderstands or does not comprehend your depth or wit; and that the rest of us have yet to reach your level of 'discernment'.  The alternative reality is apparently hard to deal with.

I have read through your blogposts, by the way.  Not all of them, but on occasion.  I've felt a need on occasion to try to understand where you are coming from and this strange need to talk about outgrowing anything you were not able to personally enjoy, or accomplish.

I don't liek the idea of voting for one best roleplayer per game; though I do like mechanically rewarding it.  I find Pundt's mechanism encourages gamesmanship and competition, in an activity that is, for the most part, cooperative.

Quote from: LordVreeg;630074 Your viewpoint unchanged or unsullied by experience or logical disourse, blithely unwilling to engage in any part of a conversation that is inconvenient.[/QUOTE

Quote from: LordVreeg;630074Your viewpoint unchanged or unsullied by experience or logical disourse, blithely unwilling to engage in any part of a conversation that is inconvenient.

If only there was logical discourse to be found here, but alas.

And experience is a personal matter that can't be transfered.

And generally talking to idiots is a waste of time, I only have so much of that to spend on such foolishness.

Quote from: gleichman;630013But I will say this, I'd be ashamed to claim any of his 'achievements'.

RPGPundit has written and gotten published online 4 RPGs. What's to be ashamed about?

My hope is that Pundy will endeavor to get his games in dead tree form at the FLGS and supported at cons.

I may disagree with Pundy at times, but he's published 4 more RPGs than I have done and I fully respect that. He even puts his money dick on the line  every month to pay for this website that we use, but don't pay a dime to support.

Gotta respect that too.

Quote from: Spinachcat;630119RPGPundit has written and gotten published online 4 RPGs. What's to be ashamed about?

I'd start with the brain dead games themselves, only use I could possibly find for them would be as starter paper for a nice warm fire.

But I understand bad games are all the in thing these days, along with many other vices and other bad habits. I'd just be ashamed to pander to such tastes.

Quote from: gleichman;629988It's a pity that when all is said and done, nothing of what you listed is of any real value- nor even that difficult to do.

Really? And yet, comparatively, you've failed at everything you do.

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Quote from: gleichman;630094And generally talking to idiots is a waste of time, I only have so much of that to spend on such foolishness.

And yet you have time to be here, on my site, talking about me. How amusing.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;630777And yet you have time to be here, on my site, talking about me. How amusing.

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It's actually during travel time between the sectors of the MMO I'm playing. Browsing the web in general kills that deadspace.

And laughing at you of course, always a pickme up.

Quote from: RPGPundit;630777And yet you have time to be here, on my site, talking about me. How amusing.

I managed everything I've tried, except for gaming sites like this one. But then again I never really expected to.

I'm just not a typical type of player, and have nothing in common with the masses.

Quote from: Spinachcat;630119RPGPundit has written and gotten published online 4 RPGs. What's to be ashamed about?

My hope is that Pundy will endeavor to get his games in dead tree form at the FLGS and supported at cons.

Um thanks, but my games are in dead tree form. They have been for sale at FLGSes, and I know for a fact some of them have been played at cons in both america and europe.  FtA! was a hit in Germany.

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Quote from: gleichman;630124I'd start with the brain dead games themselves, only use I could possibly find for them would be as starter paper for a nice warm fire.

But I understand bad games are all the in thing these days, along with many other vices and other bad habits. I'd just be ashamed to pander to such tastes.

Shit this is funny! First, you're really dying of envy, aren't you? The more people jump in to defend me, the more you're sounding like a 4-year old with a tantrum: "Yeah but his games are poopy! they're full of poop!".

Second, its pretty clear that of the two of us, you wouldn't know game design if it beat you in the face until you called it daddy; because game design's first law is that for a game to be good, people have to want to play it. By definition, if you're talking about games that no one wants to play they cannot be good games.

And again, because you were born wrong, and have taken none of the efforts or reparative therapy needed to get to where you can even start to understand human society and behaviour, much less mimic it successfully, when it comes to games you fail at everything you do, because no one wants what you're selling.

I'd just about shed a tear, but then I'd have to dry my cheek with one of the bills from the big wads of cash WoTC has paid me to help them understand how to make their games successful.


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Quote from: gleichman;630781I'm just not a typical type of player, and have nothing in common with the masses.

The tragedy is that you don't even understand how that makes you broken, and isn't something for you to be proud about.

If it was really a choice for you, then at least you'd be able to say that its of your own devising; but having nothing in common with the masses because you can't understand what it is to be normal just means you're a factory-defect of the species.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;630785First, you're really dying of envy, aren't you?

That would be no.

I don't envy anyone in the hobby, or really anyone in any field. Respect, yes. Envy no. Compared to someone like Audie Murphy for example- you just don't rate.

In gaming, about the best would be Bruce Harlick and his co-authors for Champions, and David C. Isby for SPI's Air War. But really, there are of almost no importance either.

I just don't take gaming seriously. It kills time on the side.