tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post1015169619186378727..comments2024-03-19T04:20:50.142-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: On Role-Playing (Part 10 of 11)JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-76197573512270651092013-07-20T07:59:30.830-07:002013-07-20T07:59:30.830-07:00Gotta go with the commenting trend on this one. I&...Gotta go with the commenting trend on this one. I've been loving the essay, but your distaste for WotC D&D has overwhelmed your basic point in these last couple posts.<br /><br />You even conclude that no version of D&D has really emphasized role-playing in your sense or gone out of its way to tell people how to do it, but only the recent editions come in for a rather off-putting level of vitriol.<br /><br />As you say in the essay, that part is a digression from your point, and you should consider editing it out if you ever produce a "final" collected version.Deadstophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844595286531971355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-58706460092044416862013-07-18T09:39:36.904-07:002013-07-18T09:39:36.904-07:00The personal attacks here are distasteful. It woul...The personal attacks here are distasteful. It would have been far better to focus on the ideas.<br /><br />You had the beginning of an interesting idea at the beginning of this series (that taking the role of a PC can be accomplished by action choices within the game world rather than thespianism at the table in real life). Unfortunately, it seems to have been derailed by vitriol (perhaps unintended) and an insistence to frame things as objective truth rather than as an interesting way to roleplay that others might want to try.Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-30787479629787205132013-07-18T02:00:24.715-07:002013-07-18T02:00:24.715-07:00+1 Pierce; I guess I am not going to read it anymo...+1 Pierce; I guess I am not going to read it anymore. <br />Just because a game doesn't match YOUR idea of what roleplaying is, doesn't mean that it's NOT a roleplaying game. The best you can say is it doesn't meet your expectations (and you have every right to say THIS.)<br />As I just mentioned, it's not science (and I have titles to say this; I am a mathematician by profession.) Yet you make it sound like you have PROVED something. Unfortunately, an approximately correct hypothesis doesn't imply an approximately correct thesis. Since your definition of roleplaying is pretty subjective, your conclusions are, too; as a corollary, resorting to name calling is just sad. <br /><br />Oh well. One less blog to read.Antoniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17258180992723371727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-77648702313507632072013-07-18T00:35:24.003-07:002013-07-18T00:35:24.003-07:00As a fan of this blog I feel compelled to say that...As a fan of this blog I feel compelled to say that this series of posts is getting harder and harder to stomach. I'm not sure what the point of these posts was supposed to be but it seems to have derailed somewhere. It is coming off as kind of sad honestly, calling people 'retarded' and 'halfwit' is pretty unnecessary.Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17342275462566805167noreply@blogger.com