Personally. I find this funny as all get out.
Personally. I find this funny as all get out.
I would bet that Timmy is the kinda guy who can build up a whole conversation in his head based off of a sideways glance. Those conversations never go well for Timmy.
Don't be like Timmy.
Get in on a game.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-fan-communities-that-hate-their-own-members
I would bet that Timmy is the kinda guy who can build up a whole conversation in his head based off of a sideways glance. Those conversations never go well for Timmy.
Don't be like Timmy.
Get in on a game.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-fan-communities-that-hate-their-own-members
Everybody pays; it just depends on what currency you use. If someone is going to run a game for you for the soul reason of creating a world where the storyteller is god, well, most gods are malevolent and single-minded manifestations of natural or psychological force. Just look at any mythology:
ReplyDeleteOdin is considered to be a pretty sage old dog, but he runs a police state via his animal companions, and lords over a realm where you will fight to the death, and then wake up and do it again.
Sound familiar? I mean, this is paradise in Norse mythology, and many of us experience it every day in the MMO and RPG communities. We get to experience a never-ending conflict of epic proportions, and we don't even have to die gloriously in battle to do it. We have, in essence, cheated Death and get to have paradise now.
Sorry daddy Odin, but the Internet has stolen your honor bound warriors and replaced them with a spectrum of children who need not endure a life of brutal training and suffer heinous injury after heinous injury in the name of your lord and your god. We can now roll our dice, activate our abilities, and tell our lord and god to cram it on every whim. I guess the guys at the top will just have to work a little harder to keep our interest.
All that being said, most people pay with psychological torture in the gaming community at large. Storytellers are scarce and encouraged to design and perform for zero monetary compensation from players. Put a destitute guy in charge of the universe and see how he treats it's inhabitants. Outliers are few from the rhetoric I have heard in many RPG forums.
This is where the Internet and online role-playing steps in. You now have choice. You now are not relegated to your own neighborhood psychopath to take you on a journey through your imagination. With some effort, you can find a wonderful private arrangement, and there are a few projects (like mine) that are experimenting with public games.
Our community doesn't have to be like this. We can be a place full of choice, challenge, and fun for everyone that wants to participate. It only takes a change in mobility and choice for both Player and Storyteller to change the whole RPG game.
You're gonna make Timmy think that Odin is pickin' on him Cavin.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Henry Thanks, now I'm triggered
ReplyDeleteBeardhead Q. Taintbutter is officially my character name for the rest of my life.
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