Posts Tagged by Reality
| August 1, 2012 | Posted by John Arcadian |
A few weeks ago, I went on a weekend trip down to Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. The cave system at Mammoth Caves is the longest known cave system in the world, comprising ~400 mapped miles of intertwining caves. That is 400 miles that they know about and have mapped. It probably stretches much, much farther and deeper. It was an impressive place, the 12ish miles of it that were open to people without a special spelunking license, and it left an impression on me. Relating…
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
Have you ever had your knowledge of reality interfere with your acceptance of genre conventions? Gamers are usually pretty nerdy, and tend to know quite a bit about gamer-ish topics, sometimes down to a very granular level. RPGs usually emulate genres better than they emulate reality. A GM’s detailed knowledge of reality can conflict with a game that is based on a genre that may only barely resemble reality. Take the Katana (please!) In reality, the katana was the best sword that could be made…
| October 8, 2009 | Posted by John Arcadian |
No form of entertainment is entirely realistic. Movies, video games, books, and pretty much any other form of media cut a lot of corners when portraying the world. If they didn’t, they would be bogged down with boring minutia and detail. However, a lot of gamers like the complexity and detail of “realistic” gaming. Without the challenged presented by these small challenges a tabletop game might not feel any different from a video game, to some people. Here are 5 places where gaming will never…
| July 13, 2008 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
I forget… are we playing Saving Private Ryan, Doc Savage, or Dragonball Z today? “I want to shoot him with my trusty .45, blowing him back through the door and into the room. In the chaos, I’m going to dive in the room after him, tumble behind the couch, and come up in a ready position.” “I’m going to run up the bamboo, jump off at thirty feet, bounce off the building, and execute a charge on him from that height. His shield bonus shouldn’t…
