Recent content by hawkeyefan

And still others like to make snide comments about the things people enjoy!

You directly compared other people’s play to your imagined horror board game. Good grief.

Because the first quoted post wasn’t really about you reiterating your preference. It was basically pointing out how someone with a different preference wasn’t enjoying RPGs to the extent they can be enjoyed. That their preferences don’t have anything to do with why RPGs are different from other...

So I think part of why comments like the first quoted above get push back is because of the second. Like, if it’s already been established multiple times that we all have different preferences, then it would seem you actually do get what you’re responding to in the first. So then what’s the...

I think most supers games actually do have that. They actually tend to “lock things down” much more than the actual comics/movies themselves do. It’s pretty much a necessity to make a game out of the material. But many games also build in some amount of flexibility… which we could argue is...

Telling a story is different than running a game. For most of us, anyway. Aren’t you the one to point out that horror is a difficult genre for RPGs? I also love how it always comes back to the dice being everything instead of just an additional tool. As if narration and description and all...

Yeah… that is an insanely high bar to set. Okay GM… accomplish what professional writers accomplish! Oh, and do it for multiple participants involved in a social activity as opposed to an individual reading. Oh! And do it in real time, without revision or editing to really hone things! And...

Hm I don’t think that distinction has been addressed all that much… but okay!

Well, if my PC is removed from play… either for a couple rounds or maybe something longer… then my PC is removed from play. My feelings about it may differ a bit depending on how it happened… but I mean that more from a gameplay aspect. Like, did I make a bad call that led to this, or was it...

I find that odd. It’s very much the same thing. Well, they’re loss states of a sort, so sure, I may feel disappointment as like a player who cares about play… especially it I made some poor decision that led to this situation. But I think that’s a different type of disappointment than you...

I have no idea. I’ll get more specific. Do you feel similarly about going to zero hit points or being otherwise removed from combat? Is it disappointment and then disengagement when that happens?

Is this how you feel about all consequences? Oh, well… you had agreed with the idea that horror was more difficult to pull off… so I suppose I’m not sure what the above means.

I disagree quite a bit. Not that horror can be difficult… it can be. But rules can help. Right, but as you’ve both pointed out… that’s very difficult to achieve. I mean… so much of what Lovecraft is about is how inconceivable the threats are! That merely witnessing them can break one’s mind...

That in some cases or for certain areas, when things are uncertain, we look to the dice or other rules to guide us. The most basic example is from a game like Call of Cthulhu, when a character encounters an otherworldly being or something similarly beyond understanding, the player does not...

Via the process of play.