tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post5692567911947240853..comments2024-03-29T00:46:13.625-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Fantasy Objectives (Part 2)JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-91629330686334000652013-10-27T19:48:07.510-07:002013-10-27T19:48:07.510-07:00To some extent I agree. Games have objectives. An ...To some extent I agree. Games have objectives. An end game. Without them, games aren't games, they're story-telling or some other form of "play." The nice thing about a role-playing game? Players can make them up from session to session and evaluate whether they've "won" or not that session based on whether they achieved their objectives. J. Alexander Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04872779022319863774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-7672204401771359992013-10-03T14:09:47.808-07:002013-10-03T14:09:47.808-07:00I don't fear specificity, I just think its a l...I don't fear specificity, I just think its a load of bunk. Assigned game objectives? In a dullard's voice: "Yeah, ya know, 'cause I don't know what's the first thing I do in the morning when I get out of bed." Find the door, you idiot.<br /><br />I don't know what your point is, JB, but nothing on this post is relevant to it. It doesn't <i>matter</i> what other games do, or how they define themselves as games, or what they think an objective is, or indeed what you think an objective is. The whole, entire reason I enjoy the game of D&D is <i>because it is utterly like any other game that came before it</i>, and any game like it that came after was a pale, dim, pathetic pox on D&D's butt.<br /><br />And now you're arguing that D&D <i>needs</i> to have objectives and design like other games? And that these other poxy games you reference are somehow meaningful alternatives because your straw man 'flaw' in D&D has been defined by you as a flaw?<br /><br />This is drivel. And you should know its drivel. But go on, write a third part, the straw man needs a wife and a daughter and probably a dog too.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.com