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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 5725226" data-attributes="member: 61026">That player was clearly obfuscating. (Blowing smoke.) Rand didn't say anything specifically about RPGs in Atlas Shrugged, if only because she wrote it before RPGs were invented. (That novel is a pretty funny read, though, if you can get through the entire length of it.)Rand did say stuff about productivity and ownership and benefit; but it's easy to gloss over all that and simply equate Randism with Selfishness. (I consider that to be over-simplification; but that's merely My Humble Opinion.) As I see it, based on reading your description, you did the right thing: the players wanted immunity from death in your game and you didn't, so the best solution was simply not to play together. Rand has nothing to do with that situation beyond the fact that each of you did follow your own interests by not gaming together; and being true to your own interests is the basis of what she promotes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 5725226, member: 61026"] That player was clearly [B]obfuscating[/B]. (Blowing smoke.) Rand didn't say anything specifically about RPGs in [U]Atlas Shrugged[/U], if only because she wrote it before RPGs were invented. (That novel is a pretty funny read, though, if you can get through the entire length of it.) Rand did say stuff about productivity and ownership and benefit; but it's easy to gloss over all that and simply equate Randism with Selfishness. (I consider that to be [I][B]over[/B][/I]-simplification; but that's merely My Humble Opinion.) As I see it, based on reading your description, you did the right thing: the players wanted immunity from death in your game and you didn't, so the best solution was simply not to play together. Rand has nothing to do with that situation beyond the fact that each of you did follow your own interests by not gaming together; and being true to your own interests is the basis of what she promotes. [/QUOTE]

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