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Ppemerton replied to the thread Beginning to Doubt That RPG Play Can Be Substantively "Character-Driven".Maybe I already posted this - some of these threads are blurring together in my mind - but in any event it bears reiterating: GM force...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism.Of course you can. I've done this to play reasonably successful sessions of In a Wicked Age and Cthulhu Dark. I've come close with The...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism.Philosophy of science has only pretty modest application to the study or practice of criticism. I'm prepared to allow that criticism...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism.I tend to agree with @Fenris-77's response. Also, some of what you say is true only because RPGs have, traditionally, had incomplete...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism.This is very similar, I think, to my description upthread of my response to The Forge. Reading stuff there helped me better grasp what I...
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Ppemerton reacted to Ovinomancer's post in the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism with
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Okay, to what purpose is the discussion being shaped, then? This seems a rephrasing of your initial statement without much change. I'm... -
Ppemerton replied to the thread S/Z: On the Difficulties of RPG Theory & Criticism.I teach a theoretical sociology course with a fair bit of Marx and Weber in it - I'm all over stripping away the comfortable and...
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Ppemerton reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread Is the DM the most important person at the table with Like.
So I was DM for 3 players over the weekend. There was a spurt where the players were doing a few things the day before they were...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Is the DM the most important person at the table with Like.
But what does "important at the table" mean? Are we talking "important to this specific instance of game" or "important to this specific...
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Ppemerton reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Is the DM the most important person at the table with Like.
My comments in this thread aren't aimed so much at diminishing the importance of the GM to a game so much as pointing out that it's not...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread Beginning to Doubt That RPG Play Can Be Substantively "Character-Driven".Evard appeared in the fiction because I (playing my character's offsider) successfully conjectured about his tower being nearby (the...
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Ppemerton reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread "Illusionism" and "GM force" in RPGing with Like.
Call of Cthulhu 1st edition (1981) is interested in emulating fiction and it wants to produce an emotional effect on the players, but I...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread "Illusionism" and "GM force" in RPGing.@Doug McCrae - thanks for posting those excerpts. The AD&D 2nd ed one shows how much the "precepts of the game" changed across editions...
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Ppemerton replied to the thread "Illusionism" and "GM force" in RPGing.Musson's idea of a union meeting of ogres can be seen as Force. I don't think it's very illusionistic, for the reasons I gave (ie it's...
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Ppemerton reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread "Illusionism" and "GM force" in RPGing with Like.
These are from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide 2nd edition (1989) pages 101 and 103: Is This Encounter...