Recent content by Umbran

They are only bad players if they, or the folks at their table, are not having fun because of what they are doing. Making the play unfun is really the only way to be a "bad player". I expect being highly judgmental of other people's play is far more likely to make a table unfun than playing...

I like the lampshade on how most shows with zombies insist on calling them anything but a zombie.

Many things are possible. But, when doing analysis, the first step is to review what you actually have, what is the precedent, not what is possible. There's bit of selection bias in accepting everything that vaguely says that he's a Q, but sweeping aside all contraindications. If they wanted...

With respect, "great pains" is hiring John DeLancie for the parent's voice. It isn't like Trelane and Q are the only nigh-omnipotent beings we've seen in Trek. No, I don't think the finger-snap thing counts, as I am pretty sure that habit was established in "Squire of Gothos".

Mod Note: If you aren't going to engage properly, please don't engage at all. Next time you're not going to read, maybe go somewhere else, and do something constructive, instead of threadcrapping, hm? Thanks.

You have to be kinda careful about how much unproven lying you attribute to a character. I mean, I could just as easily say that he got fed up, and created an illusion of a parent (and their Q-voice) to make a dramatic exit! But we have no specific reason to think that happened. We have no...

I don't find most games to have stats give sufficient granularity to determine personality, and there are many factors other than stats that impact personality. So, generally, I try to make sure the personality I am considering is consistent with the stats I have for the character. Pretty...

Well, there are a couple of things that suggest that Trelane isn't a Q. 1) We have seen a few other Q. They don't generally use personal names. Amanda Rogers grew up as a human, and didn't know she was Q. And Quinn took that name specifically to rebel against the Q-Continuum and end his own...

Mod Note: Fully? Perhaps not. But, EN World does not hold that treating people fairly, without discriminating against them due to gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, and so on, is anything more than being a good human. We cannot go deeply here into how some choose to use the machines...

Mod Note: Two threads on the same topic merged.

I think I have a different point to make than the speaker you were responding to.

Maybe we are stumbling over the word "process", and I am using that word for things that you have not considered a "process" in the past? If some stuff has to happen to get from one state to another, that stuff is a "process". F'rex, to get from having our teeth be kinda fuzzy to being clean...

Note, the distinction that makes the difference isn't whether the mechanic exists, but whether the mechanics are directly associated to and simulating processes that exist in the narrative.

I agree in part - I don't know that being simple for the GM is all that new, or will ultimately be seen as the focus of today's games. But i think he gets muddy about 4th generation, and that i cannot lay on how 5th generation is still going on. It reads more like a pile of his personal gripes...

So, with respect, simulation in general does not require that association. That association is specific to what is usually called "process simulation" - it is an added requirement that may not be relevant to all folks who want simulation. For example, folks looking to simulate a fictional...