Quote from: J ArcaneI wanna talk about games.  

No one else wants to though.  It seems what everyone else wants to talk about right now is RPGnet, and dominus Nox.

Those are really kind of dull topics if you ask me.

Guess what?

No one's forcing you or anyone else here to talk about me.

Fucking moron....

Quote from: KoltarI am what I am.
 I am who I am
Thats me in the avatar pic.

- Ed C.

Koltar be keepin' it real... :cool:

I stumbled here quite by accident, but I rather like the laid-back atmosphere. I may stick around.

Quote from: flyingmiceI came here to talk about games, but instead everyone here's talking about each other in this forum. The three or four of us who like to talk about games are getting tired of each other's avatars...

That's a hint, folks...

-clash

Indeed.

I'd like to point out that OT has already achieved 25% of the threads and posts that the RPG subforum has.

Quote from: JongWKIndeed.

I'd like to point out that OT has already achieved 25% of the threads and posts that the RPG subforum has.

In the last week or so, I'd say the percentage of posts made in OT and Help Desk is probably more than that made to the RPG-related forums.  

This site is starting to become theBitchAboutRPGnetandNoxsite.

You know what's totally helping? The meta-bitching. That reliably generates RPG-related threads.

But I guess theBitchAboutRPGnetandNoxandPeopleBitchingAboutRPGnetandNoxsite doesn't roll off the tongue, huh?

I'm done with it anyhow, just seemed amusing to me. You may now resume complaining about other posters.

The first forum I ever joined was... I stop to blush... the Forge. At first I thought "These people are so smart. They have theories, and philosophies, they're making art, and here I've just been trying to keep my players from raping and robbing every peasant they encounter. What have I been doing wrong?"  Maybe it was because I was at a pretty low period in my life, but I totally bought into the idea that so much of the gaming I had done was flawed somehow. Lucky they didn't ask me to drink any Kool Aid.:rolleyes:

But as I read, most of the discussion, at least in the Actual Play threads, which is what I was interested in , seemed to be, "I don't think you've truly faced the issues you've raised with your Bangs", or suchlike. It sounded more like group therapy, or an acting workshop, than gaming. I could just imagine how my regular gaming group would greet that:

Me: " So, what's your Kicker?"

Them: "Kill it! Take its stuff! Detect magic! Chop it into potion components!"

More to the point, I felt (Forge Jargon Alert!) deprotagonized by so much of the discussion there. I always came away from it not wanting to run a game, feeling like I would make some terrible botch of it, so why bother?

So, I left that behind, and took up residence at TBP. Life was OK, for a while, but how many "Sell me on..." threads can you read? I yearned for more.

I found Dr. Rotwang!'s posts. He seemed to be stewing over the same things I was, so I followed the links to his blog, and then came here. I enjoyed the fact that most of the discussion was about actually playing games. I found the skepticism for theory, especially GNS, refreshing. I come away with ideas, and a feeling of enthusiasm, a "No guts, no glory" approach. That's whay I stay.

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Joan Jett

and... (sigh!)... Martha Quinn

I'll be in my bunk.

There's a hole in my heart shaped like the day Martha Quinn forgot to ask me to marry her.

Erin Grey, ladies and gentlemen!




Also, check this. :haw:

Quote from: JongWKErin Grey, ladies and gentlemen!




Also, check this. :haw:

My second D&D character ever was a Female Cleric named Wilma, for this very reason.

What?

Quote from: KrakaJakSo...why did you come to the rpgsite and why do you stay here?

I heard about this place when threads on two other boards were crapping on it. I followed the links, read some posts, decided that there was a lot of intelligent conversation here, and signed up.

I stay because there are not huge arguements here on why the board isn't more like 4chan, why an editor doesn't want t-shirts made celebrating him, or why a set of rules is wrong and shouldn't be used because they were written 30 years ago (not mechanically unsound mind you, or inhibiting play, but wrong - like the game is a religion or something). The discussions are fairly adult and the personal attacks are no worse than what you would find in your average bar.

EDIT: And I'll add this too. My game has improved just by following a couple of the links Dr Rotwang! has posted and blatently stealing the advice and ideas linked. I know there has to be more cool stuff here just waiting for me to find it.

Beats the living shit out of the "Look at the cool YouTube video I found!" threads elsewhere.

Quote from: JongWKErin Grey, ladies and gentlemen!




Also, check this. :haw:

You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.

Quote from: jeff37923I heard about this place when threads on two other boards were crapping on it. I followed the links, read some posts, decided that there was a lot of intelligent conversation here, and signed up.

Were those the same boards as always (rpg.net?) or was it some other board that hates us that we don't even know about?

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPunditWere those the same boards as always (rpg.net?) or was it some other board that hates us that we don't even know about?

RPGPundit

RPG.net and the SJGames forum. Don't know if both are repeat offenders or not, although I guess that RPG.net is.