tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post3082101635120042965..comments2023-10-20T06:48:04.662-05:00Comments on Lord of the Green Dragons: "The Court Martial of Hiller C. Ranton"Rob Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648200357715492214noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-14786230746159495222011-09-13T04:06:03.969-05:002011-09-13T04:06:03.969-05:00"Emile and Event Streams: A Moral Viewpoint o..."Emile and Event Streams: A Moral Viewpoint on DMs and Players as People"<br />"This is my final online post regarding the GM Challenge now raging towards its ultimate conclusion at various blogs."<br /><br />"We are dealing with unique individuals; they are not plug-and-play objects easily fitted one after the other into categories no matter what we think is true, or is the "norm," amongst ourselves. We owe it to newcomers and ourselves to be cautious and concerned in the matter of teaching and its methods."<br />-Monday, August 22, 2011<br /><br />What is the "best" way to teach or learn?<br />Listen to yourself.<br />Listen to reason.Timothy Paul Schaeferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12279725399542404987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-81147950680836018992011-09-01T11:17:42.244-05:002011-09-01T11:17:42.244-05:00@GW.
We all agree that an RPG should be fun or el...@GW.<br /><br />We all agree that an RPG should be fun or else it would lose its entertainment value.<br /><br />But you expose a mode here that is not as apparent or in vogue as it once was.<br /><br />D&D/RPG grew out of many interdisciplinary studies in education, the arts, game theory, game design and several distinct areas of literature including fiction, history, myth, legend, folktale and related. Whether these were manifest on a primary level or subsumed in the knowledge base as the game was extrapolated into being is not as important to understand; rather that these disciplines in parts or whole were indeed used in the formal or informal process.<br /><br />However, as the game grew, these integral components for the most part became obscured to the majority playing it and for obvious reasons dealing with its mass marketing thrust as I have pointed to in my recent interview. This forced it into the perceived view of a "unique"<br /> entertainment vehicle only. But now, 37 years later, D&D is just another RPG and by many is considered passe and sterile. Why is that? How can a game with so much foundation go from internationally recognized to just another RPG game in such a short time span in history? I can answer that in full, and I am doing so in an upcoming article and book.Rob Kuntzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17648200357715492214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-87175174027736523902011-09-01T10:11:21.460-05:002011-09-01T10:11:21.460-05:00All too true. :(
The new breed of gamer is not th...All too true. :(<br /><br />The new breed of gamer is not the colorful, wild rogues of D&D's heyday, or even the standard by-the-book, antagonizing rules lawyer. The new breed submit itself to a quota of pay, play, please can we have some more sirs!<br /><br />A duller breed …<br />And this world is theirs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-15307344952769825122011-08-30T15:52:05.305-05:002011-08-30T15:52:05.305-05:00GW:
"Message, Rob? ;)"
Just returning ...GW:<br /><br />"Message, Rob? ;)"<br /><br />Just returning the compliment.<br /><br />Your quote from E/A is frightening. But truth can be frightening, can't it?Rob Kuntzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17648200357715492214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-55531236611533966022011-08-30T10:21:40.929-05:002011-08-30T10:21:40.929-05:00You're mistaking specific for banal and deep f...You're mistaking specific for banal and deep for cliché.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016645013375966173.post-18923505287515531182011-08-30T08:17:52.747-05:002011-08-30T08:17:52.747-05:00Message, Rob? ;)
I think I have a copy of E/A aro...Message, Rob? ;)<br /><br />I think I have a copy of E/A around here...<br /><br />"If you instruct players in a specific way of gaming long enough and keep repeating it, players will eventually come to believe it is the only way to play. The specific way of gaming can be maintained only for such time as the Gamemaster can shield the players from the imaginative, inspirational and/or rule-bending consequences impairing the specific way of gaming. It thus becomes vitally important for the Gamemaster to use all of his/her powers to repress dissent, for creativity is the mortal enemy of the specific way of gaming, and thus by extension, the creativity is the greatest enemy of the Gamemaster." <br /><br />"Yahweh is Myweh. So I have written it, so let it be done.""Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com