Re: Characters

Phillip Lenhardt (philen@ans.net)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:40:51 -0400

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:19:06PM +0000, R. W. Gabriel wrote:
> In other words, you can tell the people-who-like-to-play-strategy-games from
> people-who-want-to-roleplay-but-can't-seem-to-get-the-realworld vs
> fantasyworld-relationship-consistently-down.

Exactly.

> However, I can always tell the geek roleplayers from the wargamers b/c the
> geek roleplayers can't understand the wargamers' reasons for playing, and
> then try to foist their vision of the game onto everybody else. That is why,
> of course, I make fun of Greg. he can call himself whatever he wants; just
> don't expect me to play his name game.

I don't care what anyone's reasons are for playing, as long as they aren't
--in the strictest sense of the word--cheating. Distinguishing between
player and character, which Greg makes easier by (mostly) separating the
two voices allows me to think that Greg is a loudmouthed jerk while being
merely amused by Oleg's blustering.

> PS. How nice that you can distinguish between the soulless and the soulful.
> Sounds very godlike of you. It must be similar to my ability to distinguish
> between roleplay-geeks and roleplay-nongeeks.

Once again: Exactly.

-phil, all-good and deserving of all your love

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