tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post509996387396523615..comments2024-03-29T06:16:21.012+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Role Playing in the PBEM Wargames Community and the Roots of the HobbyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-77321700493847828062011-01-04T20:29:11.522+08:002011-01-04T20:29:11.522+08:00Greg: I'll follow with interest!
Kent: "...<b>Greg</b>: I'll follow with interest!<br /><br /><b>Kent</b>: "Genius" is a bit too strong a term. I don't want to denigrate Gygax's contribution to the world, but let's not go overboard. <br /><br />I think there's an argument that had Newton or Einstein not been around, there were plenty of other people waiting in the wings (Leibniz, etc.) who would probably have made their discoveries sooner or later - it's the school of thought that views such "great minds" as being a kind of inevitable biproduct of the fact that their society's cumulative technological development had reached a certain level. Somebody had to put it down on paper, but if it hadn't been Newton it may have been Leibniz or a dozen other people working in concert.<br /><br />Regardless, we don't have a time machine or an alternative timeline generator so we'll never know, but I reckon RPGs would have come along at most 5 or 10 years after Gygax and Arneson had come up with the idea - just by virtue, as I said, of the fact that wargames lend themselves so readily to pseudo-role playing.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-74464177901652269632011-01-04T08:20:43.803+08:002011-01-04T08:20:43.803+08:00Are you so patient? These guys, Newton, Einstein a...Are you so patient? These guys, Newton, Einstein and da Vinci come along once every 200 years.<br /><br />Without Newton you we don't eventually have electronics, moonlandings and the internet in *our* lifetime.<br /><br />Without da Vinci we still have city museums stuffed with *unique* work of genius we rush past on our holidays.<br /><br />Gygax was the sole rpg geinus as far as I can tell and there is no reason to think you, in your lifetime, would be roleplaying without him.Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-88714508550332562632011-01-04T02:00:20.751+08:002011-01-04T02:00:20.751+08:00Have you seen the description of the game I am wor...Have you seen the description of the game I am working on called Statecraft?<br /><br />It is a grand strategy RPG.<br /><br />Find it through my google profile.Pontifexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761338487255048337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-77069261604441090952011-01-03T23:32:53.247+08:002011-01-03T23:32:53.247+08:00It's a racing board game. Quite popular.
Pers...It's a racing board game. Quite popular.<br /><br />Personally I love to play boardgames that way. I almost feel bored unless doing it that way.AndreasDavourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17170806742393291962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-38504882384965527992011-01-03T20:06:33.455+08:002011-01-03T20:06:33.455+08:00Thanks! What's Formula Dé, by the way?Thanks! What's Formula Dé, by the way?noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-12012472444223570042011-01-03T20:00:19.921+08:002011-01-03T20:00:19.921+08:00Good to see you back blogging once more.
I'm ...Good to see you back blogging once more.<br /><br />I'm reminded of White Dwarf letters page _years_ ago when somebody made the argument that "Game X isn't roleplaying" and the editorial response was pretty much along the same lines as your post pointing out that it seemed impossible to play Junta without it degenerating into a whole load of comedy South American dictator accents and mannerisms.<br /><br />I've also noticed it in Formula Dé, Diplomacy and every aerial wargame my group has ever played.Coopdevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219253658967958289noreply@blogger.com