Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD

From: "Rob Harper" <rob@stateofmindgames.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:04:50 +0000

MadCentral <madcentral@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20001212135924.07635.00004707@ng-fy1.aol.com...
> >>Pretty strong evidence there, Steve, although I would suspect that
> there is an element of conservatism there.  After all, you do a good job
with
> your turns and people like that, so most of them will
> be happy not rocking the boat.<<
>
> I dont think saying ''yes'' to an offer a GM makes would be considered
'rocking
> the boat''.  I offered them the option to have a HTML *or* a PDF as they
> preferred, and nobody wanted anything else, so I didnt bother converting
the
> print function.

Maybe I phrased that badly.  What I meant was that if I enjoy how a
game is being run, it is easier (or perhaps more comfortable) to say
"carry on what you're doing" than to go for the change.

<snip>
> Quite possibly some of the 'old school' PBMer, or even the 'hard core'
number
> cruncher is long gone from my games (and, truth be told, from *yours*
too).  I

True.  ;o)  We run the games we want to run, and there's other people
running games we don't want to run.

<snip>
> Well, I've run most sorts of games, Rob.  I ran Odyssey for several years,
and
> thats *exactly* that sort of game.  But its not the sort of game I choose
to
> run these days, although in truth there are more statistics, numbers and
> information in DungeonWorld, or in Riddle of the Sands, than in all the
> Odysseys and their ilk put together, so I suspect we have kept quite a few
of
> the 'old school' and 'hard core' gamers despite all that.

I figure there's plenty of room for variation, even within the "old
school".  There's plenty of space for depth and detail without too
much number crunching.

Rob.

--
1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a game and 4 for a toy.

References

Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:59:24 +0000
Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
"Rob Harper" <rob@stateofmindgames.co.uk>
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:07:40 +0000