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Psychosis is a very different illness and is not connected to OCD or impulse control disorders or substance dependence disorders. I am sorry, but I am not sure what you are meaning with you statement? Can you clarify? (apparently it is a long day for me without enough caffeine). I think mine...

That is my favorite journal by far :lol:

I was speaking with a bit of hyperbole. :lol: It is always a good idea to take any single study with a certain amount of critical thought. Frankly most all studies have limitations and in most peer-reviewed journals they are spelled out in the conclusion/discussion of the paper. Peer review...

Yes and no. Addiction science is pretty complicated ;) (i work in anxiety, depression and schizophrenia and am far from an expert in addiction science) It is not really a fine clear cut difference. Many of the "addiction" are classified as impulse control disorders (which in turn are really...

If you are talking about anxiolytic medication helping those with Social Anxiety Disorder, you are way off base. SAD can be a terribly debilitating disease and can cause severe impairment (heck a nobel prize winner would not go accept her prize because of it). While journalists tend to...

We just started the Shadow of Yesterday campaign and this game is really good. Was on my gameshelf for probably half a year or more. I first read it and didnt really like it as it was pretty different. I was going to run a C&C game but we decided on TSOY. Right nowitis my currently favorite system.

I have noticed with certain people that when life is going bad they tend to game a lot more. I think there is a section of the gaming population that uses gaming as way to empower themselves. Past that, I think it is hard to say. While I have been gaming for a long time, the data set is...

I would actually try some more narrative-based systems to get a different approach to gaming. Sorcerer is very rules lite The Shadow of Yesterday is really cool (just started a campaign) it is more complex than Sorcerer but is still pretty rules lite Burning Wheel is very crunchy and has a...

I am probably the oddest one. I thought the vancian system is probably the thing I like best about D&D (though I really dont like it for clerics). It is weird and bizarre which fits magic well. I think the tatical aspects are interesting and it allows a little better balance to allow spells to...

What you describe is what I think is an advantage of world-building in a game. I think world-building outside of the adventure can be effective in allowing your game to have a real living feel to it (other things happening offscreen that can potentially impact the character). I think one of...

As far as games go, I would probably agree that this is correct. But in my opinion while this relates to the issue, it is not acutally the issue at hand (of course I could be wrong). I really think Harrison is talking about world-building within the context of the narrative itself. Not that...

This is probably the fundamental disagreement then. WHAT is considered world-building? What you defined as world-building, I do not. I think what you described is setting (detailing) the narrative. I believe world-building in reference to writing is basically "intrusion of reams of...

I think he was ranting about a specific form of bad writing. While Cerebrim brings up a good point that we (myself included) have somewhat diluted his words (sort of a tirade); I still feel that his point that worldbuilding can interfere with the narrative is valid. Though like most things...

That is exactly what i thought Harrison was saying as well. It is not that details are not important as they can give life and versimiltude to the story, but that authors that are focused on worldbuilding end up visiting the department of extraneous backstory often enough to the detriment of...

Strangely this topic is somewhat related to a New Campaign I am running (using TSOY, I wanted to use C&C but my friend really wants to play TSOY). The idea behind this campaign is that at the start of every 'story' it takes place in a tavern, with the characters (totally metagame) recounting...

I actually think that Jordan is a great example of someone who concentrates on worldbuilding to the detriment of the story.

I agree with this completely, and I also thought that this is what he was trying to say. Often writers so badly want to show you the world that they created that the book becomes a rather dull imaginary history or verbose atlas. The narrative and story should explore the world and not the...

I think that it is pretty obvious that whatever system they make in 4e will suck for some people and others will love it. (do i win a prize for most obvious statement :cool: ) I wonder if this means that the magic system should not be standard but maybe have several optional magic systems that...

The Book Torn Asunder has crits that are simple and already usable as is for D20

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but necromancers in my campaign basically are basically sorcerers whose known spells are limited to necromantic ones. They can choose any necromancy spell from any list. They also have the special ability to turn undead as an evil cleric and have access to...