Hi tom.
the only problem is a lot of people seem to think that rolling the dice for
stats is all! an rpg is, which is pretty pathetic. I've played with players
like that before, and they're not fun, also they give rpg gamers something
of a bad reputation.
There's actually a book on podiobooks that had a really interesting premise
but was terribly executed. the idea was what happened when rpg player
actually became! their characters in the game world by some sort of magic.
The problem? the author planely knew nothing about how rpgs were played, or
the people who played them.
When he represented the game, it was basically the gm telling the entire
story and the characters just listening, and making dice rolls. Half of the
characters were evil and obsesssed with power and killing each other, -----
and the entire group which was all male all seemed equally obsessed
about, ----- mmmm, things not concerned with rp!
Indeed, the first thing most of them did when getting into the rp world was
find a bunch of prostitues.
even his one female character he represents as this ridiculously naive girl
who just goes on about love all the time, and he even has the gm say "having
a girl in the group means I can do some less violent plots" -----
interesting as half of my rp group is female, and indeed my russian friend
is probably more blood thirsty than I am!
So, the amount of wrong ideas people have about rp is a real shame, and the
sterriotypes of people who do it, and the fact that there ar! players who
just want to sit around and roll dice and don't actually do any real roll
playing at all isn't good from any angle.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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