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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2014, 06:15:05 PM »
Too bad. But maybe you can reschedule or find some other people. Best of luck.
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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2014, 07:47:57 PM »
Still, while we're ont eh topic, there was a great article recently posted here that has some great advice on the differences between heavily narrative games like Fate/DFRPG and the more dice rules-oriented ones like DnD.  May not be immediately useful if your table fell apart but worth the read and may help next time you venture into that side of RPG's

http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,42985.msg2085064.html#msg2085064

That's not a great article. It's an incredibly smug and silly article.

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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2014, 02:33:37 PM »
That's not a great article. It's an incredibly smug and silly article.
Ill grant you Smug, and add Elitist to it, but it accurately describes the issues Ive had with many, many tables that cant or wont acknowledge the differences.

BTW, this was just added to the thread on the first article, a counter-argument recommended by the author of the first one.   
http://www.robjustice.net/writing/chess-was-never-meant-to-be-a-rpg-in-defense-of-game-balance/
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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2014, 07:45:32 PM »
...it accurately describes the issues Ive had with many, many tables that cant or wont acknowledge the differences.

What do you mean by that?

BTW, this was just added to the thread on the first article, a counter-argument recommended by the author of the first one.   
http://www.robjustice.net/writing/chess-was-never-meant-to-be-a-rpg-in-defense-of-game-balance/

The counter-argument seems a lot more reasonable to me. But honestly, I don't think it addresses the biggest problems with the original article. Namely the self-contradictory incoherence of its whole argument, the ridiculous distinction between board games and RPGs, and the basic awfulness of telling other people that they're having fun the wrong way.

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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2014, 08:02:15 PM »
Tell you what, lets move this discussion to the thread about those acticles so we dont keep derailing Tassyr question thread:
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,42985.0.html


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Re: New GM in deep trouble.
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2014, 09:32:28 PM »
On second thought, this is headed nowhere good. Forget it.