tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post3239757517588064153..comments2024-03-28T23:33:47.438-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Maybe This IS a "Kid's Game"JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-59299229963764748762009-11-17T20:01:03.247-08:002009-11-17T20:01:03.247-08:00Hey folks: I appreciate the echoes of sentiment. I...Hey folks: I appreciate the echoes of sentiment. I was in a dark cloud that evening...but I'm going to "rise above it now" and move onto more constructive topics.<br /><br />If you take anything away from this post, take away that I really dig magic gauntlets.<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08532311924539491087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-91854056288221259812009-11-17T17:12:41.189-08:002009-11-17T17:12:41.189-08:00Some people become so sophisticated they forget th...Some people become so sophisticated they forget that it's a game played for escapsit fun. <br /><br />Take economics: I've seen all sorts of unrealistic attempts to create "realistic" economies when economies are too complex to understand and model anyway. If we understood economies today, we wouldn't have so many problems with them.<br /><br />Real people ignore economies (unless forced to pay attention by need) and concentrate on enjoying our life. That is realism -- not price lists and moneys.<br /><br />I've been exploring games with realistic economies in that only expensive things (like ships) have a cost. Everything else isn't worth bothering with and is handled by avalability as set by the GM. Common sense, not "money" rules the game. Players (which includes the GM) can concentrate on playing for FUN not simulationism. <br /><br />Many problems gamers face today are nothing but irrational nerdist absurdities caused by thinking "being sophisticated" means going into unneeded details in things like "economics". The opposite is true: real sophistication is throwing away the nonsense and only dealing with what is FUN and ENTERTAINING.<br /><br />That is the core to true REALISM. It's the number nerds who constantly press for more details, when in the real world we ordinary people despise details. We keep things simple and strive for simplicity. <br /><br />The number nerds and detail lovers do not want to play the game, they want to play WITH the game. Avoid them and return to adventuring.JD Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04316006608698192630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-25584300350492252292009-11-16T10:37:28.977-08:002009-11-16T10:37:28.977-08:00less magic gloves and more attention paid to the m...<i>less magic gloves and more attention paid to the minute workings of a semi-medieval economy.</i><br /><br />Boring. Maybe not to some people, but boring as shit to me. Give me the magic glove any day. Actually, put the magic glove in the bottom of a forgotten temple full of traps and monsters and let me go in and get it or die trying. <br /><br />If I want to muck around with an economic simulation, then that's what I'll do. The game is called Dungeons & Dragons, not Taxes & Tithes. ;)DMWieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03682249561077936507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-55396231981116244222009-11-16T08:31:39.586-08:002009-11-16T08:31:39.586-08:00"Maybe D&D isn't supposed to be...&qu..."<i>Maybe D&D isn't supposed to be...</i>"<br /><br />Sounds like much ado about nothing. D&D is supposed to be fun - period. Obviously, what's "fun" varies from person to person, group to group. But if you enjoy your D&D with a dose of whimsy, then that's what it's supposed to be.<br /><br />"<i>Maybe adults have better things to do with our imaginations than share an imaginary space occupied by constructs of our own mind.</i>"<br /><br />Maybe - but with that sort of thinking, we'd be hunting animals, naked, for their raw meat...Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368794259249607299noreply@blogger.com