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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7610336" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Really? So, you think there is a correct answer to what makes a good baseball player? An answer that everyone will agree with? Seriously? You honestly think the answer isn't "all of the above"?</p><p></p><p>Or, better yet, what makes a good movie? or a good book? Or a good pretty much anything. </p><p></p><p>Very, very few things can be reduced down to a single element that you should focus on to the exclusion of everything else.</p><p></p><p>It's a reductionist argument that of course leads absolutely nowhere unless you start from an extreme position. Such as Literary=High Art. Well, I'd say that virtually everyone in this thread agrees that RPGing is not high art and no one really needs to aspire to that to run a game. Fair enough, we're all in the same boat.</p><p></p><p>Well duh. It's a pretty obvious statement.</p><p></p><p>What's happened though is that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] has repeatedly shifted the goalposts, refused to actually define what is meant by the question and then ducked and dodged any counter points while trying to champion a reductionist vision of gaming that excludes vast swaths - LARPing, more story oriented gaming, etc - of the hobby. </p><p></p><p>It's no different than the folks that insist that Edition X isn't really a Role Playing Game. It's self serving twaddle and borderline trolling. And, frankly, I'm being to suspect that it was done with a complete disregard to good faith.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7610336, member: 22779"] Really? So, you think there is a correct answer to what makes a good baseball player? An answer that everyone will agree with? Seriously? You honestly think the answer isn't "all of the above"? Or, better yet, what makes a good movie? or a good book? Or a good pretty much anything. Very, very few things can be reduced down to a single element that you should focus on to the exclusion of everything else. It's a reductionist argument that of course leads absolutely nowhere unless you start from an extreme position. Such as Literary=High Art. Well, I'd say that virtually everyone in this thread agrees that RPGing is not high art and no one really needs to aspire to that to run a game. Fair enough, we're all in the same boat. Well duh. It's a pretty obvious statement. What's happened though is that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] has repeatedly shifted the goalposts, refused to actually define what is meant by the question and then ducked and dodged any counter points while trying to champion a reductionist vision of gaming that excludes vast swaths - LARPing, more story oriented gaming, etc - of the hobby. It's no different than the folks that insist that Edition X isn't really a Role Playing Game. It's self serving twaddle and borderline trolling. And, frankly, I'm being to suspect that it was done with a complete disregard to good faith. [/QUOTE]
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