“Narrative vs. gamist playstyle? What the fuck does that mean?”
“Narrative vs. gamist playstyle? What the fuck does that mean?”
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
There's a PC Load Letter joke here somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find it.
ReplyDeletePC's THAC0…
ReplyDeleteI have to assume this is a flare-up relevant to the latest Ron Edwards and Tarnowski dust-up?
ReplyDeleteNo, just me whenever I see someone use these high-falutin' terms when they're talking about elf-games.
ReplyDeleteMeans a bunch
ReplyDeleteAin't that hard to understand.
Uh, no. Joke. Move along.
ReplyDeleteNar: we're here to tell a story.
ReplyDeleteGam: we're here to win.
Sim: we're here to see what it would be like.
That is my likely inaccurate rendering that I nevertheless find useful as a way to figure out what people are primarily looking for in a game.
La-la-la! I don't care!
ReplyDeleteArgh, like the "character-based" vs. "story-based" wars where many of us wondered Wtf that even meant and why it was worth fighting over different play styles.
ReplyDeleteI get the sense that people are not understanding what you're doing.
ReplyDeleteAccording to postmodernism Narratives do not exist. When will TTRPG game design adopt postmodernism?
ReplyDeleteA stronger model was introduced back in 2006 anyways
ReplyDeletehttp://jrients.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-got-your-threefold-model-right-here.html
Nerds, man.
ReplyDeleteRSP is much better, I'm going to use that from now on.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Office Space in a while so i don't recall the specific context of this image but that must be part of the joke...
ReplyDeleteAlso, narratives exist, they are just socially constructed, if we wanna get postmodern.
This thread delivers on the meta-lulz.
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