tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post1531902874273862746..comments2023-05-19T07:51:18.617-07:00Comments on A Roll of the Dice: What Not To Be - Removed!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post-71431978225897666612016-04-17T05:34:04.245-07:002016-04-17T05:34:04.245-07:00You could make a "Deleted Scenes" chapte...You could make a "Deleted Scenes" chapter, though :) Would be lots of meta and whatnot to have a chapter about "what didn't make it into the book and why", but this way you could have it in there without, you know, having it in there. It could work :)Jens D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post-30932481578640348822016-04-17T05:15:44.586-07:002016-04-17T05:15:44.586-07:00You bring up a good point, I'm not sure if any...You bring up a good point, I'm not sure if anyone is going to read or play my game either. In one form or another (I have a terrible habit of becoming dissatisfied, knocking it to pieces and rebuilding from scratch) I've been working on it since circa '92, and have yet to have any luck play-testing it. People want to play the games that they either already know or the ones that are currently wrapped up in some big gaudy advertising blitz which is causing everyone else to talk about them.<br /><br />And of course, the games they already know are often the ones they began playing long ago because of an earlier big gaudy advertising blitz - something I could never pull off.<br /><br />So why the hell am I doing this? <br /><br />At this point I'm just doing it to bring it to an end, to get to where I can have something printed that I can put on the shelf and take down every now and then and satisfy that urge to know "what the hell was I thinking?"<br /><br />So in a way it is an artistic statement of sorts. It can be played and I'd be thrilled to know that somebody somewhere is actually playing it, but its real purpose is just to be there. All of my ideas on tabletop RPGs distilled. It's Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine but made with dice.<br /><br />If that's the case then the "What Not To Be" should be in there. I shouldn't care so much about people's inherent urge to find any reason to put a book down after picking it up. <br /><br />And yet I do, I always do....<br />JD McDonnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11733422185181944721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post-58023968670203856452016-04-17T02:35:12.824-07:002016-04-17T02:35:12.824-07:00Well, I know oWoD at least had a disclaimer that v...Well, I know oWoD at least had a disclaimer that vampires aren't real :)<br /><br />Yeah, it sucks a bit that those topics are sort of tabooed, because just ignoring them doesn't solve them (or, say, open them to discourse). Well, we'll see. I'm as far from a final written version of the game as they get. All I know is that I'm gonna have this in the setting description somewhere, which will be separated from the rules themselves, so I don't see a problem ...<br /><br />Anyway, I'm not even sure people will read it or even play it, so the only thing I can say for sure is that some sort of advice about etiquette at the table is something I'd like to have in a rule book. If it's ignored, it's just as well. But there are things that should be said, IMO.<br /><br />And it's a very American thing you describe, the poodle in the micro wave and all that :) People got rich because of those trials.Jens D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post-46744516245044051512016-04-16T09:25:48.450-07:002016-04-16T09:25:48.450-07:00I don't know. It's a tough situation. I th...I don't know. It's a tough situation. I think it was the White Wolf games that told people to not LARP using real weapons. Good advice but it makes you wonder about the people who do play the game. Like I remember a friend talking about finding firecrackers with "do not put in mouth" written on the label. Who on earth does that?<br /><br />The dark side of Christianity and slavery in a historical context? That's the kind of thing you mention in the Game Masters Guide and hope that nobody notices until after they've invested themselves in learning the game.JD McDonnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11733422185181944721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5611167626755368189.post-78195862637517306732016-04-16T06:35:31.028-07:002016-04-16T06:35:31.028-07:00A shame. There's some good advice in there! Wi...A shame. There's some good advice in there! Will there be a replacement? Maybe something with a more positive connotation, like they use to have in such books (you, know, assuming a mature reader and telling him that there actually is a responsibility to be nice to each other ... something like that)? I totally understand why you'd skip the whole thing, though. I'll have to talk about the dark side of Christianity and slavery in a historical context for Lost Songs rulebook and I'm not that psyched about it either :) Gotta be done nonetheless.Jens D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18394303166081684904noreply@blogger.com