Wisdom

[Stalker0]

Flexibility is not in the bend, but in the bending back.

 

[RangerWickett]

Do I want to know what 'fanservice' is?

Fan service is a term that is often used when talking about anime. It refers to catering to the fans who are watching by having gratuitous shots of cleavage and panties. You'll notice that most Japanese girls aren't double-D cups, but anime girls sure tend to be.

So bloodshed accomplishes the same goal in D&D. It entertains the players, regardless of the content of the story.

 

[Dirigible]

Ahh, enlightenment. Sweet, sweet candy of the ignorant. Cheers, Ranger.

 

[Dark Jezter]

The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming red dragon.

 

[Geoff Watson]

Fan service is a term that is often used when talking about anime. It refers to catering to the fans who are watching by having gratuitous shots of cleavage and panties. You'll notice that most Japanese girls aren't double-D cups, but anime girls sure tend to be.

So bloodshed accomplishes the same goal in D&D. It entertains the players, regardless of the content of the story.

Fanservice is more general than that. Scantily clad girls is one common type, but many things included for fans that aren't part of the plot could be called fanservice.
Other examples are: return of popular villians/characters, detailed views of tech stuff (eg in the first Star Trek movie, the scene where Kirk looks at the Enterprise from all angles in a shuttle), fight/action scenes to show off the actor/character's 'coolness', etc.

Geoff.

 

[babomb]

"He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions."

"When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security." — Benjamin Franklin

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." — Mark Twain

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." — Confucius

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." — Socrates

 

[Agback]

"A knowledge of Sanskrit is of little use to a man trapped in a sewer."

"Better the icy blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant."

Regards,


Agback

 

[RangerWickett]

"Think what it's like to be a killer. Think how exciting it is, in theory, to kill a person in direct confrontation. If he dies, you cannot. To kill him is to gain life-credit. The more people you kill, the more credit you store up. It explains any number of massacres, wars, executions. . . .

"In theory, violence is a form of rebirth. The dier passively succumbs. The killer lives on. What a marvelous equation. As a marauding band amasses dead bodies, it gathers strength. Strength accumulates like a favor from the gods."
- 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo

This sounds a lot like D&D to me.

 

[Gez]

"Science without conscience is the ruin of a soul."
--Rabelais


"When in doubt, hit again."
--An orc wiseman.

 

[Richards]

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -- Groucho Marx.

“Do you know what you are? You are what you is. You is what you am; a cow don’t make ham.” -- Frank Zappa

Johnathan