Where’s My Favorite Poster???

Best Selling RPGs - Available Now @ DriveThruRPG.com
Do we need a thread for our Lost Ones?

Dumarest stopped by a while go and let us know what was going on - he was recovering from an accident, IIRC and he's got some family stuff going on.

Tommy just posted on his facebook this evening, so we at least know he's live and well.

OHT's disappearance is the one that still bothers me.
 
I’ve actually been a little worried lately at the number of people who’ve dropped off. Some I’m legitimately wondering if they are physically alright and others I’m just wondering if they are just burned out being online because of some vague/not vague posts they made at one point or another.
 
Fenris-77 is starting to feel sulky about where he might fall in this notion ranking of Endless' favorites.
I kind of thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we listed our top five favorite posters. Not really as a popularity contest but I truly think some people don’t believe people really like their posts. The answers might surprise a lot of people.
 
I kind of thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we listed our top five favorite posters. Not really as a popularity contest but I truly think some people don’t believe people really like their posts. The answers might surprise a lot of people.

Translation: Endless is accepting bribes starting now...
 
I kind of thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we listed our top five favorite posters. Not really as a popularity contest but I truly think some people don’t believe people really like their posts. The answers might surprise a lot of people.
I agree, not only might there be some surprising results, but I suspect quite a lot of shit talk and merriment as well. You could even go with categories or some such.
 
I’ve actually been a little worried lately at the number of people who’ve dropped off. Some I’m legitimately wondering if they are physically alright and others I’m just wondering if they are just burned out being online because of some vague/not vague posts they made at one point or another.
I think the most active threads over the summer were moderation criticisms and debates. The gaming discussion is often slow. I don't know, I'm in an odd place where very little that is new in the industry appeals to me. The games I love are dead, the things I least like in game design are popular, it's really a wasteland out there as far as I'm concerned so I'm not really contributing much to game discussion myself but theoretically that's why I come here. At the same time, the store's been picking up a bit, far from profitable and eating up too much time so I'm not really creating much right now. There are times when I think it's just time to throw in the towel.
 
I kind of thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we listed our top five favorite posters. Not really as a popularity contest but I truly think some people don’t believe people really like their posts. The answers might surprise a lot of people.
Every time you change your user icon I have to learn who you are all over again.
 
I kind of thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we listed our top five favorite posters. Not really as a popularity contest but I truly think some people don’t believe people really like their posts. The answers might surprise a lot of
I don't mind being a beauty queen....just sayin.
 
I think the most active threads over the summer were moderation criticisms and debates. The gaming discussion is often slow. I don't know, I'm in an odd place where very little that is new in the industry appeals to me. The games I love are dead, the things I least like in game design are popular, it's really a wasteland out there as far as I'm concerned so I'm not really contributing much to game discussion myself but theoretically that's why I come here.

I find myself in almost exactly the same position. Even new stuff I'm kinda interested in, like the Aliens RPG or new Mythras supplements, it's more intellectual curiosity, I'm not running out to buy them or planning to run any games with them.
 
Part of the problem is that everything's gotten too glossy and expensive for my liking. I loved gaming when it said, "create your own damn world you lazy ass," I really don't care for the obsession with licensed properties. Show me some interesting mechanics or some world you made yourself. Most licensed properties are too narrow to support much of a game. Really, kitchen sink is important to long term campaigns. But I've always loved the little independent products. Give me a Thieves World, Midkemia Press, High Fantasy, Wizard's Realm, Villains and Vigillantes over a bloated, glossy, 300 page monstrosity any day of the week. I guess I have the same problem with movies these days too, too many franchise reboots. Tell another story, good grief, I love King Arthur and Robin Hood but could the movie industry please, please, please just make something else?

To bring it back to the sliding post counts, how do we bring the gaming discussion back to life?
 
I love King Arthur and Robin Hood but could the movie industry please, please, please just make something else?

I would love for Hollywood to do a straight King Arthur or Robin Hood, not another "new twist" on the classic story that's dated by the time it's released. We haven't gotten a straight King Arthur adaption since Excalibur, and I don't think Robin Hood has gotten one in a century. These stories are iconic and timeless for a reason, and our current generations are suffering a cultural void. More kids today are familiar with Shrek than the original tales Shrek is parodying, and Disney has become a regurgitation machine that can't even do Star Wars or Spider-man right.
 
You’ll be fine besides feeling like you got hit by a Mack truck when you wake up tomorrow.
Not necessarily. I felt absolutely fine the next day. Besides the site of injection, which would hurt regardless of the type of shot. But everyone reacts differently.
 
Well, I'm back, I'm not dead, but I did throw up a bunch about a half hour after and now I'm just really tired
 
I love King Arthur and Robin Hood but could the movie industry please, please, please just make something else?
I feel the same about Captain Kirk, James Bond, etc. Don’t re-cast them! Don’t re-boot them! Save on royalties: tell us a fresh story about one of the other secret operators in the SIS, or one of the other crack crews in Starfleet. Or some fresher, more modern SF.

As for the Disney regurgitation machine, not every story has to be about a feckless boy who has to face responsibility falling in love with a girl whose father doesn’t realise that she is grown up now. The Tale of Aladdin and the Lamp is not a three-wishes story. The beast was nothing but kind and gracious to Beauty, who was kind of heartless. These old stories are worth telling and adapting because they are (a) different and (b) good; it is foolish and somewhat irksome to re-make them all as Disney’s Best-possible Only Story.
 
Last edited:
David, what kinds of topics do you think would spur more conversation?
 
David, what kinds of topics do you think would spur more conversation?
That's an interesting question. Most of the contentious stuff is off limits and I'll bet you a dollar arguing about alignments and orc babies makes up about 50% of the rpg discussion on the entire internet. Design philosophy and theory have certainly been beaten to death with no real resolution or enlightenment. I think the hobby is too fragmented these days, too tribal, we're saturated with new content but obsessed with the old stuff. I think mechanical discussion generally loses people. When I write stuff, I get the feeling that the setting material interests people but the mechanics level them cold. Partly my mechanical preferences are rather out of fashion but even more so, I think people are generally settled into their preferences. They aren't looking for a new game system.

I guess that's the hard thing, shaking people out of their complacency without crossing the boundaries politic. Maybe we need more content, interesting characters, spells, and such like.
 
I've been putting in 13 hour days and working harder than ever for worse results, sadly politics are still a huge reason why shit is bad where I live. My mental batteries are drained at the end of every day dealing with a population that see little value in education.
 
Every weekday morning, I have to argue about the value of education with my daughters. Frankly, the education system has really disappointed me and I'm pretty disengaged at this point. I don't see how yelling at the teaching staff would improve things and I do have difficult children. When my older daughter was in elementary school I'd routinely get phone calls at work, "David, did you drop Anna off at school today, because we can't find her. David, can you come and get Anna, she's being a cat under a desk in the office and won't come out. David, Anna is drawing in physed class and won't respond to the teacher." She gave them hell :grin:
 
Last edited:
Drama is quick engagement, it's like a sugar or caffeine hit for the brain. It's not good for you, we all know it, but it's a easy way to get engagement. The Pub is like being on a diet - it's better, you feel better in the long run without the controversies, but it can also be boring from time to time. I'm not saying we should chase after drama, of the political or nonpolitical variety, but I think engagement on a purely intellectual level takes more effort - like my Fire and sabre thread, it's a hearty meal, but one I just don't have the freetime to write up research on a daily basis. The same is likely true of any actual gaming content outside of just fluff and memes.
 
Banner: The best cosmic horror & Cthulhu Mythos @ DriveThruRPG.com
Back
Top