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Gabe from PA goes OD&D

Started by J Arcane, April 07, 2010, 11:26:14 PM

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J Arcane

#120
April 09, 2010, 11:38:44 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;372752Tycho agrees with Pundit on 4e nomenclature A classic.

The definition of "Anti-Big Purple".

Honestly, I think their strips on D&D have been some of the best damn pieces in recent memory there.
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#121
April 09, 2010, 11:40:51 PM
Quote from: J Arcane;372756Honestly, I think their strips on D&D have been some of the best damn pieces in recent memory there.
Some of them are real funny. I agree.

StormBringer

#122
April 10, 2010, 02:38:18 AM
Quote from: Peregrin;372722In the past these things weren't very prominent, and the only mention of tabletop you'd get is if Jerry was talking about Baldur's Gate or something, but since Mike took up DMing, tabletop has become a very visible side-dish for the whole of PA.

Quote from: CRKrueger;372752Tycho agrees with Pundit on 4e nomenclature A classic.

The definition of "Anti-Big Purple".

Quote from: J Arcane;372756Honestly, I think their strips on D&D have been some of the best damn pieces in recent memory there.
I stand corrected.  I am not the biggest video game fan out there, so I don't often read PA (I prefer Ctrl+Alt+Del for the more general humour).  If they are putting out more RPG related strips, that will likely lure more of their fans into the hobby, which is great.
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#123
April 10, 2010, 04:36:45 AM
Quote from: jrients;372700Joethelawyer, I've got the National Vanilla Council on line 1 for you.  Something about their product being a legitimate flavor alternative.

Anyway, I asked Matt Finch is S&W.com had any more traffic since Wednesday and he said he's got roughly triple his usual daily hits.  I call that a win.

Jrients got it right.
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#124
April 10, 2010, 05:49:39 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;372465The most popular gaming related website on the fucking internet just name dropped, and linked, OD&D and Swords and Wizardry.

If you weren't so fucking clueless about the real world, you should be ecstatic.
I only read up to here, where J Arcane won the thread.

Did it get better?

Sigmund

#125
April 10, 2010, 09:21:22 AM
Quote from: FASERIP;372665No, he would have Cheryl Tiegs.

(Cue 70s poster icons edition war.)

No sorry. Cheryl Tiegs posters, while certainly nice, are purely optional, only the Farah poster is core '70s Old School.
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#126
April 10, 2010, 09:26:19 AM Last Edit: April 10, 2010, 09:49:05 AM by Sigmund
Quote from: jrients;372700Anyway, I asked Matt Finch is S&W.com had any more traffic since Wednesday and he said he's got roughly triple his usual daily hits.  I call that a win.

Well good for him, really. Not quite the windfall it seems was being predicted here in this thread, but still very damn cool anyway, and substantial enough to be a win for sure. I'm willing to stand corrected and say go PA and go S&W both.
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#127
April 10, 2010, 09:30:13 AM Last Edit: April 10, 2010, 09:49:25 AM by Sigmund
Quote from: J Arcane;372729Fucking word, man.

He doesn't owe anything to anyone, let alone to some ideological purity or party line about what a handful of fucking bloggers and forumites claim the 70s were "really" about.

He's got a set of rules in front of him, that he's gleefully done whatever he likes with to make it fun for his group.

How the fuck do any of you OSR people in this thread know that there weren't others that played this way?  The dreaded "story" focus in gaming didn't rise out of nothing, for instance, yet don't you dare mention it might've occurred in D&D ever, unless it was in the evil 2e.

A dude found the game, and decided to have some fun with it, and then posted about it on his really popular website.  If that happened with a game I liked enough to want to see succeed, I'd be ecstatic.  

Instead it's all about how "Oh, but that site isn't that relevant, I've never read it" and "He's not playing it right".  Playing it right according to whom?  Some amateur pundit with a "primer" declaring what is and isn't old school?  The jackass who wrote that hopelessly presumptuous "how to play old school" thing in the new S&W white box?  

Yet again, you people, and by people I mean every one of you in this fucking thread who's knocked his game, James M. and the rest of the bloggers who're going after it, the smartass comments from the people in the RPG Haven thread I was reading earlier, all of you, have fucking proved that the "OSR" is once again all about some invented vision of ideological purity, and has fucking nothing to do with gaming or enjoying games.

I would like to personally request from now on, that the "OSR" be given the same status as "The Forge", because it's not a fucking RPG, it's a fucking religion.

You were right, to a point. The exposure increased traffic on the S&W site. That isn't a bad thing. Good job, you called it, sort of :hatsoff:

Now, get the fuck over yourself. You're getting worse than the Pundit with this silly ass rant. Honestly, why the fuck do you care what the "OSR" is doing?
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#128
April 10, 2010, 09:37:30 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;372732Actually, it wasn't the point I created this thread with.  I honestly and completely expected people to be pleasantly surprised about the thing, to be happy with the exposure.  

I personally thought it was a neat post, as while I'm not especially a fan of OD&D, I always think it's neat when Gabe or Tycho throws a nod to a more old school approach.  The contrast between the young turk Gabe's forays into learnign RPGs with Tycho's hardcore old school roots has led to some fascinating conversations and really funny strips in the past.  I've personally posted some of Tycho's previous posts talking about the clash between his old school sentiments and 4e's attempted new wave.

I really, truly, honestly swear in my heart of hearts that I had no intentions other than posting a thing that I thought neat, and honestly was surprised by the hostility towards his post.  I just saw it on Evotab and thought, "Hey, I bet theRPGsite would like this."

I shouldn't have, but I did expect better.

Actually, in the context of your expectations, I can truly understand how lukewarm responses to your thread kinda put ya out.  While I wouldn't characterize the responses here as hostile, at least from most of us (you got pretty hostile almost immediately), I'd say we just didn't expect much of a change, and to be perfectly honest, even a tripling in web traffic isn't really that big of a deal given the size of PA's audience. It's still good though, so good for them. I still feel you need to lighten up, this shit ain't a big deal.
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"I\'d rather be a killer than a victim."

Quote from: John Morrow;418271I role-play for the ride, not the destination.

Sigmund

#129
April 10, 2010, 09:42:48 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;372745DM 101 Gabe finally gets it. :D

Tycho gives some Old School advice

Those rock :D
- Chris Sigmund

Old Loser

"I\'d rather be a killer than a victim."

Quote from: John Morrow;418271I role-play for the ride, not the destination.

Sigmund

#130
April 10, 2010, 09:47:41 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;372752Tycho agrees with Pundit on 4e nomenclature A classic.

The definition of "Anti-Big Purple".

Those both rock too. They're not OotS, but they're pretty funny :)
- Chris Sigmund

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#131
April 11, 2010, 02:32:38 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;372752Tycho agrees with Pundit on 4e nomenclature

Well of course he does, as a character of distinction. Good for him.

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