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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5011464" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p>I think if RPGs had more violence, reading, math, a little bit more violence than the first time I mentioned that, imagination, and people with weird personalities it would probably prosper more.</p><p></p><p>But sometimes it takes itself awfully seriously to be filled with so much violence, reading, math, imagination, and weird personality types. Plus sometimes I don't think the pictures of Elven females have enough in the way chain-mail armored hotpants to appeal to the average Joe. That's just a word to the wise for my art buddies. </p><p></p><p>A bit more seriously though, I think that if you're gonna be slaughtering monsters then maybe the bloody images in video games might have something on hit points.</p><p></p><p>I mean you kill something in a video game or a film or TV show and all you really get is blood and entrails. But you kill a monster in an RPG and gory statistical number sets and complex differential calculations squirt everywhere. (I once nearly had my eye put out when a THACO round went off accidentally. I guess I deserved it though, like an idiot I lost a base modified initiative throw by miscalculating all possible positive number sequences as applied to racial traits. Go figgur.) But anyway, I guess the whole thing just might be too visceral and graphic for some people. Do we really wanna sully our children's mind with vicious pre-algebraic formulations of paper peryton, graphite griffons, ink-stained imps, and cardboard catoblepas? I'll leave it up to you of course, but some people might have standards.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The term fatbeard made me laugh. That's what my buddies and I used to call people in the Beta Club. I'm still not sure what it means though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5011464, member: 54707"] I think if RPGs had more violence, reading, math, a little bit more violence than the first time I mentioned that, imagination, and people with weird personalities it would probably prosper more. But sometimes it takes itself awfully seriously to be filled with so much violence, reading, math, imagination, and weird personality types. Plus sometimes I don't think the pictures of Elven females have enough in the way chain-mail armored hotpants to appeal to the average Joe. That's just a word to the wise for my art buddies. A bit more seriously though, I think that if you're gonna be slaughtering monsters then maybe the bloody images in video games might have something on hit points. I mean you kill something in a video game or a film or TV show and all you really get is blood and entrails. But you kill a monster in an RPG and gory statistical number sets and complex differential calculations squirt everywhere. (I once nearly had my eye put out when a THACO round went off accidentally. I guess I deserved it though, like an idiot I lost a base modified initiative throw by miscalculating all possible positive number sequences as applied to racial traits. Go figgur.) But anyway, I guess the whole thing just might be too visceral and graphic for some people. Do we really wanna sully our children's mind with vicious pre-algebraic formulations of paper peryton, graphite griffons, ink-stained imps, and cardboard catoblepas? I'll leave it up to you of course, but some people might have standards. The term fatbeard made me laugh. That's what my buddies and I used to call people in the Beta Club. I'm still not sure what it means though. [/QUOTE]
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