Recent content by Maxperson

If Monopoly were a RPG, sure. Then being the shoe would mean something much more than the board game version. Monopoly is far more limited than an RPG, though. In an RPG even the most gamist player still encounters traps, NPCs to talk to, etc. They are doing much more than rolling dice...

I do appreciate that you do, but I doubt that some of the others here will give up their disparaging terminology.

The point of the paragraph is that children take on the role of people/professions that they admire and want to be when they grow up. That's an admirable quality that kids have. When applied to RPGs, it simply means we are taking on the roles that we want to play/be. I want to be Cormac the...

It doesn't matter if it's a priority, we are all still make believing that we are something else, like children do. The different styles may have different approaches and goals when it comes to play, but we all get there via pretend characters of some sort. I think where you may be misstepping...

It's not much of a criticism and it applies to all RPGs and all playstyles. We are all pretending to be something else in these types of games.

The one example was instead of the derogatory "Princess Play," and then talking about childhood heroes, something like, "Playing Childhood Heroes" would be a fine neutral term.

Since there was quite literally nothing quantum about it, I don't get it, no. Hard to get something that has nothing to do with the words written down. 🤷‍♂️

For me it's Believers of the Source with a minor in the Society of Sensation.

I already pointed out one that would work. But unless the people here who use the derogatory terms demonstrate a verbal willingness here to really change which terms they use, I'm not going to bother to put out the effort. It would just be wasted.

The terminology is disparaging. The analysis, depends on how the authors word it. I've seen some authors be disparaging with their analysis, and some authors not. Terms like "Princess Play" and "Play to find Out What's in the DM's Notes," etc. are disparaging terms and the analysis can be...

What are you going on about quantum for? Nothing in that statement simultaneously is one thing and another until something happens to fix it. If you're going to try and mock me, at least get it right. What's even more sad is that you got two people to laugh at that claptrap. Edit: Now three...

The point is, there shouldn't be offense given at all. People have been using this disparaging terminology for years and they continue to do so because biased authors wrote articles demeaning other playstyles that they didn't like by coming up with these derogatory terms. Like somehow the fact...

In my opinion it's because a lot of folks here use the same negatively charged terminology that the original authors used. Whether they have the same sense of superiority and look down on traditional play, I'd don't know for sure. I have suspicions about a few. If they acknowledge that the...

No. A LARP is very different from Cops and Robbers that elementary school kids play. RPGs are not inherently childish. Games with rules are not inherently childish. Cops and Robbers is just a bunch of kids running around saying, "I got you!" "No you didn't!" "Yes I did! I pointed in your...

I agree with this. He has a childlike sense of wonder. He has a childish sense of wonder. Only one of those sounds negative. "Childish" is generally used to mean immaturity, rather than the better things from childhood. "Childlike" is generally used to mean an adult having good qualities...