I say, I say, I say WHAT?
wrote:Its certainly possible to arrive at the same conclusion via any of the three. (though I would guess there are times when you definitely expect two of them to disagree). But the end conclusion is not the important part - its the reasons they reach that conclusion that are important, and those are very different and have very different implications for how the people play the game.
The stated example had the effect on game play of cutting off arms and junk, IN ALL CASES.
That is not "very different implications for how people play the game".
Worse than that EVERY SINGLE argument I gave, which fit the various supposed gaming types ALL could be simplified into just saying "Because I think that would be cool"
There is no journey that is greater than the destination, the whole thing is a supreme wank job.
In other news
AAAAAAAAH!The RPG Theory section, the "GNS" model section, and anything ressembling anything but dumb section, is shut down, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO DISCUSS!!!!111!!!! THE FORUM HAS ACHIEVED THE GOALS HE HAD HOPED IT WOULD (the GNS model apparently)!!!!!!
It is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Sorry to any adherants but jeese, check the prescription on your eyeglasses and look at it a second time because GNS has giant glowing on fire radioactive letters all over it screaming out "Counterproductive Waste of Time"
Edit: Oh yeah, also its important to note that the whole GNS wankery thing was very much developed and lives its life as part of the whole "we are real role players and you are munchkins" meme. It was very much originally an attempt to marginalize supposed gamists as a fancier way of calling people munchkins but pretending not to be a prick about it.
Oh yeah, and the theory had the ADDED benefit of making every single thread that forum, and others, ever produced devolve into pure GNS wankery instead of anything remotely interesting.
Several years ago when I was VERY interested in finding I new forum to discus game design in I took a hard look at the Forge, which was then very active, and walked away because of its annoying and immature GNS obsession. I came here instead, people don't get bogged down in that kind of stupid around here.