Re: Whatever happened

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

>>Then you must not like playing a RPG with a GM. Talk about having to
trust the GM!!!<<

Thats unfair.  Greg makes a good point here.  *Lots* of players don't like hand
mod games or mixed mod games for the reason he specifies, and I've found that I
felt that way about some of them too, in the past.  Its not about ''trusting
your GM'', its because *every* GM is going to slip into bias once in a while,
often for reasons they don't even understand themselves.

>>For games like that the quality of the GM is crucial, both with respect
to fairness and to creativity. If you have a quality GM the players will
come. If not you can expect the game to fold.<<

Sometimes even an unfairly biased game can be fun.  There's lots of space and
leeway for all sorts of games and moderation styles.

>>Usually quality breeds success (don't hold me to this statement since
the public can be capricious). So if DungeonWorld is doing well, and it
is paritally human moderated, I suspect that the GMs are doing an
entertaining job at the very least, and a fair job most likely.<<

Dungeonworld is computer-moderated.  It is not 'human moderated' at all in the
sense you suggest.

Steve
-Madhouse UK

References

Re: Whatever happened
miteke@my-deja.com
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000