Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:38 pm
Kind of like how Tumblr has turned into one big "poisoning the well" fallacy?
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Yes. That would be an example of something handled by MTP. It also shows MTP's strengths fairly well. It gives an acceptable answer to the question of how many unimportant NPCs are in the background (14 in this case) without taking up time looking up charts or rolling dice. It's fast, and in this case the output is reasonable.ISP wrote:The DM must also set up scenes, and this is in a lot of ways completely arbitrary. For example, the PCs go to meet their contact at a bar. The DM decides the bar has 14 other people in it at the time, instead of 5 peolple or 20 people or some other number. The choice to include 14 "background characters" is not something determined by rules. Is this Magic Tea Party?
It doesn't strike me as particularly intellectual. There's, mostly, a lot of chest-thumping primate behavior meant to reinforce the self-images of the people who post there. So in that sense, it's a pretty good microcosm of "the internet."downzorz wrote:So... aside from like three guys, is therpgsite just a giant intellectual circlejerk?
I meant "intellectual" as "having to do with ideas, as opposed to a literal group of people sitting in a circle and masturbating."talozin wrote:It doesn't strike me as particularly intellectual. There's, mostly, a lot of chest-thumping primate behavior meant to reinforce the self-images of the people who post there.downzorz wrote:So... aside from like three guys, is therpgsite just a giant intellectual circlejerk?
post-SPI? I don't recognize the acronym.talozin wrote:*: Disclaimer: By most post-SPI definitions of the term, I am also a grognard.
Would this be the time somebody said they would actually punch a player that dared to play a cleric that outshone a fighter in combat? I read something about this here, a while ago.AndreiChekov wrote:So I noticed somewhere in this thread a mention of kaelik pissing people off that therpg with a cleric archer thing. I dug around for it, but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link to it?
I'm not sure. It was just a brief comment that sounded like it would be a good read. therpgsite makes for some hilarious and mind boggling stuff.nockermensch wrote:Would this be the time somebody said they would actually punch a player that dared to play a cleric that outshone a fighter in combat? I read something about this here, a while ago.AndreiChekov wrote:So I noticed somewhere in this thread a mention of kaelik pissing people off that therpg with a cleric archer thing. I dug around for it, but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link to it?
So yeah, that was fun. It occurs somewhere in this 400 page monstrosity of a thread.AndreiChekov wrote:So I noticed somewhere in this thread a mention of kaelik pissing people off that therpg with a cleric archer thing. I dug around for it, but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link to it?
SPI stands for Simulations Publications Inc., a paleolithic wargame publisher. To the best of my knowledge, they were the first game company to refer to their hardcore customers as 'grognards', and presumably they were the only company whose hardcore customers would all immediately understand the reference. The use of it to describe AD&D deadenders is a more recent adaptation -- an AD&D grognard is essentially someone who was into D&D when "grognard" was a term used to describe oldschool tabletop wargamers.Cheiromancer wrote:post-SPI? I don't recognize the acronym.talozin wrote:*: Disclaimer: By most post-SPI definitions of the term, I am also a grognard.