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« Reply #30 on: July 21, 2008, 07:57:50 PM »
Well, for instance, he talks about some white wolf games, as adhering to what he notices as a trend to short little games with nary a splat book.

But if you step back and look, the nWod seems really all of a piece to me. Wasn't the goal to make them compatible so as each book was a splat book to the others? And have you seen the books for changling? It does seem to me that white wolf is increasingly going the other way from what Mr. Baugh sees.

Anyway I'm really rather unhappy with rpgdouchetard. Sometimes I think I'd prefer that he slipped and fell in that putrid, festering, bile he spews.
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« Reply #31 on: July 21, 2008, 08:27:02 PM »
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As soon as I read "rolegaming", the article could not go anywhere good.  Does that make 4e "boardplaying"?


I don't know why he did that either.  Odd choice of words.

And I agree about his creative output as well.  Not all of it has been my thing, but some of it has been great.

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« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2008, 08:42:13 PM »
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So the new Tor web site launched with a major component being a group blog.

To my happy surprise there is an RPG blogger there. Cool. It's Bruce Baugh. His latest seems pretty myopic to me. I think he is trying not to be.

How did this happen? Is Tor going to do a line of gaming books? Fiction or a line of supplements or games?


Eh... it's worth giving a shot.

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« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2008, 08:43:54 PM »
Welcome to the site, RPGdouchetard!

(Hey, I'm usually pretty passive.  How often do I get to say that?)
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« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2008, 08:47:00 PM »
EDIT:   I'm not real negative on the article, but "rolegaming?"  Does that include dicechecking and characterthinking?

I gotta go.  My rolegaming group meets for sessionhaving in a half hour.
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« Reply #35 on: July 21, 2008, 08:57:20 PM »
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Eh... it's worth giving a shot.
What's the matter Mr. Sockpuppet?  Took you this long to have the stones to actually post, and that's all you can come up with?
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« Reply #36 on: July 21, 2008, 08:58:42 PM »
Stop trying so hard. We all know y'all are a bunch o rollgamers!

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« Reply #37 on: July 21, 2008, 09:02:14 PM »
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Stop trying so hard. We all know y'all are a bunch o rollgamers!

Geez.  Not another "rolegaming" vs. "rollgaming" argument.  Both ways of rolegaming are equally fine!  

Now, those darn theoryhavers..... :rant:
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« Reply #38 on: July 21, 2008, 09:04:53 PM »
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As soon as I read "rolegaming", the article could not go anywhere good.
Amusingly, that's exactly what the Finnish word for "RPG" would mean, literally translated. Roolipeli ("role game") stands for the kind of games that this forum is all about, while roolileikki ("role play") describes for instance what some couple might enjoy in the privacy of their bedroom.
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« Reply #39 on: July 21, 2008, 09:12:31 PM »
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Amusingly, that's exactly what the Finnish word for "RPG" would mean, literally translated. Roolipeli ("role game") stands for the kind of games that this forum is all about, while roolileikki ("role play") describes for instance what some couple might enjoy in the privacy of their bedroom.

Lucky that you have different words to avoid embarrassing misunderstandings.  (If the Fershners ask you over for a night or roleplaying, don't rush your wife out of the house before she's had a chance to shave her legs.)

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« Reply #40 on: July 21, 2008, 09:12:53 PM »
Careful Pundy, your envy is showing there. ;)

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Does tor.com have anything to do with Tor Johnson? Because if it does, I'm so there! Otherwise, why bother?

:p Bring in the bad Octopus monster prop! Tor.com looks to be the community genre blog thingee for Tor Books, which can be found at http://www.tor-forge.com/ . They're like a slightly more general version of Baen Books to me, not terribly trashy, certainly not high brow, but mainly (cheaper) paperbacks of a certain accessible style.

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Walker, I agree that mentioning Tekumel and then leaving it at that was a little weird. It's not just that other settings "deserve" mention, but (based on my assumptions about the audience) a more familiar "deep" setting like Glorantha would help get the point across.

The article is a bit uneven, but it is on a glorified community blog so I'm not expecting much polish (sadly). The initial sections were shorter and more "this is how this style started" with one example each. In the context of the article I'm not sure what mentioning Glorantha would've added, though adding say ", such as Glorantha, Traveller, and ." after "Other world-specific games followed" would have been considerate.

And since Tor.com is a fiction site not a gaming one, Tekumel has had several novels published, all written by Barker, including two mainstream* ones. AFAIK the only published Gloranthan fiction is the Griselda stories collection, not written by Greg Stafford and published by Issaries. I hear they're rather good and keep meaning to pick up a copy.

FWIW, it's not the first post he's made there. Also either they don't have columns per se or he's doing more than one.


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« Reply #41 on: July 21, 2008, 10:31:43 PM »
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Eh... it's worth giving a shot.


A sock puppet and a blatent one at that.  This is not going to end well.

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« Reply #42 on: July 21, 2008, 10:37:55 PM »
It's about time, though, really.  I mean you can't just go around lashing out at people with no substance at all.  Not even here.  Not without some consequences.  I say we keep RPGDouchebag around for everytime RPGPundit pulls some of this bullshit.
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« Reply #43 on: July 21, 2008, 10:56:04 PM »
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What's the matter Mr. Sockpuppet?  Took you this long to have the stones to actually post, and that's all you can come up with?


Ha! To be a sockpuppet, I would have to have an active account here before this one. Sadly, my mail server has continually filtered out my "Welcome to the RPG Site" emails, and I've never been able to activate an account here before.

Thank God for GMail, I suppose.

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« Reply #44 on: July 21, 2008, 10:56:15 PM »
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Lucky that you have different words to avoid embarrassing misunderstandings.  (If the Fershners ask you over for a night or roleplaying, don't rush your wife out of the house before she's had a chance to shave her legs.)


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