tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post7467310550356236011..comments2024-03-29T20:04:30.755+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: The Importance of ShadowrunUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-38289797599976774622015-02-09T08:19:46.189+08:002015-02-09T08:19:46.189+08:00Ever play Gamma World? There is the common scifi ...Ever play Gamma World? There is the common scifi trope of "Pure Strain Humans," who are about as much fun as playing a Palidin. I've often wondered if Jim Ward had some particular experience with the klan or something, because nobody ever played such a character twice.Gort's Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08684913847135419951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-46687710493440204692015-02-09T08:19:30.629+08:002015-02-09T08:19:30.629+08:00Ever play Gamma World? There is the common scifi ...Ever play Gamma World? There is the common scifi trope of "Pure Strain Humans," who are about as much fun as playing a Palidin. I've often wondered if Jim Ward had some particular experience with the klan or something, because nobody ever played such a character twice.Gort's Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08684913847135419951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-79087047357975830112015-02-01T16:02:17.974+08:002015-02-01T16:02:17.974+08:00"The anti political correctness brigade are g..."The anti political correctness brigade are getting to be almost as annoying as the political correctness brigade in policing what other people say, write, and think. "<br /><br />I'd rather have someone tell me that I was censoring myself necessarily than someone tell me that I needed to censor myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-7248535035199098742015-02-01T02:25:35.933+08:002015-02-01T02:25:35.933+08:00I'm actually sort of tempted to run a game of ...I'm actually sort of tempted to run a game of it on G+, now. I'll resist, though.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-824199677515031002015-02-01T01:08:35.251+08:002015-02-01T01:08:35.251+08:00Shadowrun was an amazing example of how a game can...Shadowrun was an amazing example of how a game can be completely tilted towards players holding almost all the power over the game and still be fun. FASA's follow up game, Earthdawn, was pretty much the opposite but still fun. Those too games really defined everything I love about RPGs.p1r8https://www.blogger.com/profile/17234914771232278105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-82495441516780329462015-01-31T16:59:45.777+08:002015-01-31T16:59:45.777+08:00I'm not normally one for reading that into fan...I'm not normally one for reading that into fantasy settings - a fantasy creature is a fantasy creature, unless a clearly poisonous racial analogy is intended. But Shadowrun really was playing with fire, because it's not a fantasy world, and everything is a human, and there is a pseudo-scientific explanation for things being the way they are. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-25736929221619950132015-01-31T02:44:54.776+08:002015-01-31T02:44:54.776+08:00Amen.
As for SR's racial politics... yeah, yi...Amen.<br /><br />As for SR's racial politics... yeah, yikes. In a way it was probably productive, though -- I'm probably not the only person to first notice how toxic Tolkeinesque "race" tropes are when transposed to a modern setting, and then work backwards to realize how messed up they are in ANY setting.Picadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01244353406711565712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-3149919494077195032015-01-30T20:01:16.174+08:002015-01-30T20:01:16.174+08:00Gosh, your take on Shadow Run pretty much matches ...Gosh, your take on Shadow Run pretty much matches my own...and yet I still dig the hell out of it. To me, it's just "D&D plus guns" and how can that not be a big batch of awesome?JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-52009981899198488602015-01-30T19:47:35.734+08:002015-01-30T19:47:35.734+08:00Oh, and "gayslayer" is definitely somebo...Oh, and "gayslayer" is definitely somebody protesting too much. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-35056620075291977282015-01-30T19:46:41.191+08:002015-01-30T19:46:41.191+08:00Haha. We were nothing like that bad, but I do reme...Haha. We were nothing like that bad, but I do remember one game of CP:2020 in which we imagined a certain pupil at my school in the year 2020 was still living in our home town - so our PCs tracked him down and killed future him. Even writing the words makes me cringe. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-87841125815985824632015-01-30T19:33:23.504+08:002015-01-30T19:33:23.504+08:00> We were as hateful as any group of teenage b...> We were as hateful as any group of teenage boys can be.<br />In high school I gamed with a guy who, in a separate group, ran a homebrew urban combat game called Gayslayer, I shit you not.Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-9798668079692051842015-01-30T16:13:29.004+08:002015-01-30T16:13:29.004+08:00You know something? The anti political correctness...You know something? The anti political correctness brigade are getting to be almost as annoying as the political correctness brigade in policing what other people say, write, and think. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-10711492833137131072015-01-30T12:26:36.127+08:002015-01-30T12:26:36.127+08:00>>I played a hobgoblin jihadist from the Mid...>>I played a hobgoblin jihadist from the Middle East. (Racial sensitivity was not my strong point, and nor was it the game's.)<br /><br />Pretty sure 'jihadist' isn't a race and we don't have to worry about hurting their feelings. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com