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Daggerheart "Description on Demand" a GM DON'T
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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9748594" data-attributes="member: 891"><p>Sure and that's where we might have preferences differences.</p><p></p><p>Alexander isn't here in this thread to explain his blog from 5 years ago and it is in that way kind of unfair to him that we're ripping it apart in here...</p><p></p><p>BUT...</p><p></p><p>He did say doing this style wasn't just not his preference.</p><p></p><p>He called it bad GMing.</p><p></p><p>He went that extra step beyond a preference to saying people not like him were bad at GMing. Those two claims after all - are very different. Preference vs 'you are bad at it if you do that'.</p><p></p><p>Of course again - the caveat is that he's not here in this thread and that WAS 5 years ago...</p><p></p><p>So I have no idea if he really means today to claim that GMs who use 'description on demand' are doing bad GMing, or if they're doing just a style he's not into.</p><p></p><p>I've been online since the late 80s so I know personally that it is extremely annoying to be held to something you wrote YEARS AGO...</p><p></p><p>So while we keep quoting him, and I've even been saying 'he has this stance'... Let me walk that back a little and say we're using this old opinion of his ONLY as a reference point to a concept.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to TRY to not hold an opinion of him over it.</p><p></p><p>BUT the stance itself - it's a preference. Daggerheart is aimed at folks who have a preference FOR 'description on demand' but can hold up even for players that don't.</p><p></p><p>As another aside. I'm also getting into Legend in the Mist right now and I suspect it NEEDS description on demand just to even function. But I'm still reading it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 9748594, member: 891"] Sure and that's where we might have preferences differences. Alexander isn't here in this thread to explain his blog from 5 years ago and it is in that way kind of unfair to him that we're ripping it apart in here... BUT... He did say doing this style wasn't just not his preference. He called it bad GMing. He went that extra step beyond a preference to saying people not like him were bad at GMing. Those two claims after all - are very different. Preference vs 'you are bad at it if you do that'. Of course again - the caveat is that he's not here in this thread and that WAS 5 years ago... So I have no idea if he really means today to claim that GMs who use 'description on demand' are doing bad GMing, or if they're doing just a style he's not into. I've been online since the late 80s so I know personally that it is extremely annoying to be held to something you wrote YEARS AGO... So while we keep quoting him, and I've even been saying 'he has this stance'... Let me walk that back a little and say we're using this old opinion of his ONLY as a reference point to a concept. I'm going to TRY to not hold an opinion of him over it. BUT the stance itself - it's a preference. Daggerheart is aimed at folks who have a preference FOR 'description on demand' but can hold up even for players that don't. As another aside. I'm also getting into Legend in the Mist right now and I suspect it NEEDS description on demand just to even function. But I'm still reading it. [/QUOTE]
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