Re: Fed up with PBeM (well nearly)

From: Richard Reynolds <topcat@airmail.net>

Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000

douglas d wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
>         Here's my feed back. an RPG is a _Role_ playing game. That is, a
> game wherein you play a role. RPG's in there highest form are much akin to
> improvisational acting. You could suggest the PBeM RPG's would be more
> like collaborative writing. The point is that it is easy to understand
> how a group might not want an aspiring actor with no experience to join
> thier improv, and it is easy to understand how a group might not want an
> aspiring role player with no experience to join thier game.
>
>         Part of the problem is that you seem to think that MUD's are
> RPG's. By and large they are not. All but the rarest MUD's are pure hack
> and slash with some problem solving and socialization thrown in. Very few
> people on muds really play a consistent, believable role. Even on the
> ones that advertise themselves as role playing MUD's, the term is mostly
> meaningless. I'll never forget the time I got a response of "man you are
> freaking me out" to a simply stated formal english reply to a question
> about why I didn't want to mindlessly slaughter the citizens of the main
> town. No, Mud's are multi user dungeons (or domains if you prefer), they
> are not RPG's (with a few exceptions which I have yet to find).
>
>         You have two options if you want to get the experience which will
> make you a desireable addition to some one's PBeM RPG. The first is to go
> down to your local hobby shop and see if you can get any leads there on
> role playing groups locally, so you can do it face to face and in real
> time (this is generaly far superior role playing any way). A good gaming
> store which carries RPG's will probably have a bulletin board dedicated
> to helping people put together groups to play with.
>
>         The second option is to move from MUD's to the role playing
> offspring of MUD's. MUSE's, MUSH's, and what ever other M*'s out there
> focus on taking on the role of a different character and exploring the
> internaly logical actions of that character.
>
>         easy,
>         douglas d
> --
> _______________________________________________________________
> Douglas D. Conklin                | dconklin@netcom.com
> "Tiger, tiger burning bright ..." | douglasd@sfsu.edu
> ---------------------------------------------------------------

I agree and disagree with you Doug ( you don't mind me calling you Doug
do ya) first John here applied to my game of Albedo a coupple of days
ago and ( no offence John ) practly begged me to let him in .  I was
confused I thought "so he was new that shouldn't mean a thing right?"
WRONG!!! was the answer , as I learned later . this irked me alot that
so GMs would be so excuse the term "Snobbish" as to not let someone in
because they have not played befor . I agree with you aon the fact that
MUDs are not role-playing but more of a roll-playing but you have to
admit it is still a limited form of roleplaying for the simple fact that
you are plaaying someone else ( the bsic idea of Roleplaying ).
do you see what i maen or are we not conecting here .

Felix , a cat of a different color

References

Fed up with PBeM (well nearly)
John Yeung <j.yeung@dial.pipex.com>
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Fed up with PBeM (well nearly)
dconklin@netcom.com (douglas d)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Fed up with PBeM (well nearly)
John Yeung <j.yeung@dial.pipex.com>
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Fed up with PBeM (well nearly)
dconklin@netcom.com (douglas d)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000