Recent content by prabe

Yeah, getting something that wrong is kinda unforgivable. For me, in books, it comes to, "How hard is this to look up, really?" I mean, I read a novel where (for reasons) the author had a Southwest Airlines A380 crash, and I was like ... no, that can't happen--Southwest doesn't fly Airbuses, at...

Like, that was the stated geography, not ... I dunno ... about where they could get shooting to happen and look right-ish? (Obviously, even if it wasn't the latter, it'd be disruptive to a local.)

Wow. I just sat down to read a novel and didn't make it twenty pages before the author had gotten four things about reality wrong enough to completely smash my suspension of disbelief. Good job, I guess, better done quick?

Unrelated to the above. Man, there are some of y'all who make every thread y'all enter untenable. Maybe reading comprehension would help y'all, but I'm out.

OP could try talking about himself in the second person, I suppose. :LOL:

As I understood it, OP thought his thesis was at least phrased as more absolutist than he liked, or was confident about.

I think the experience of play in session is the most important part of TRPGing for a majority of the people who TRPG. That doesn't mean there aren't people who engage differently, and it doesn't mean those people are engaging wrong (other than, perhaps, not matching well with many or most tables).

Uh, saying that looking over all the people doing the hobby, the experience of playing the game will generally be the most important form of engagement. I mean, the post does go on to say others will prefer other forms of engagement, it seems to me you could have figured it out from reading it.

Did you see "overall" in the post you quoted? That's doing just a little work, there.

I'm inclined to say that since TRPGs are, uh, games, that the experience of playing them is the most important form of engagement, overall. There will be those who prefer other related experiences to actually playing the games--and someone might prefer, say, chargen in a given game to actual...

Even those of us who run for players that do learn their characters and the rules, those players mostly only need to to the latter once and the former occasionally--approximately 100% of their engagement being at the table still sounds right to me. I spend maybe fifteen minutes preparing, most...

My take on the OP--which I at least mostly agree with--is that all those things that are prep, including all the GM facing things in something like the Great Pendragon Campaign--only matter if and when they land on the table. Or at least, that the point of them is the at-the-table experience...

Obviously there's some variation, but the books I saw inside of that I came into with any knowledge were all worthwhile, as I remember.

So, after reading and disliking to various degrees horror novels by Paul Tremblay and Gabino Iglesias (The Pallbearers Club and House of Bone and Rain, respectively) I was pleased to completely enjoy reading The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry. She just writes on a...

Back when I was recording audiobooks, we recorded a number of the Very Short Introductions. Good series, overall.