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Well hello Mr. Fany Pants,
I need to research some big words before responding good. But for now I'll just throw out what pops to mind. In Morrowind I have a weapon skill, a shield skill, and some physical attributes like strength, etc. My ribrical gastimonimical qualibration shortened to its extreme pithyness would state that a "good" decision would be one that my character is skilled in. When I put a lockpick in his hand and go up to a locked door I don't have to jump down, turn around, and pick a bail of cotton. I hit a button and wham-o, the unpickedness of the lock is determined by my character and the dice (game mechanics). My poor reaction skill and fat, slow fingers (which should not be forced into the role I am attempting to play) had no impact in the event of if the lock was picked or not. As is the case with every pen and paper ROLE playing game ever invented. Does yourr timing, hand dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and button mashing/mouse clicking ability have any effect in a pen and paper rpg? Why not? It could be fun. Throw a dart at the dart boards for archers, try to hit the cat with a broom handle for warriors, magicians could like their farts on fire. Everyone did better the faster they could write. Etc,. Sounds like a ball. But doesn't sound much like an rpg, and I'll hazard a guess at why....cause it ain't. Thats my "bad" rubriconomical quantum physical compilation.
Now good might not be fun, and bad be more fun than good, but a minivan is a minivan, most SUVs cannot be used sportingly, low rider trucks are stupid, and rpgs have a long standing custom of having the characters whose role you are playing stats and skills determine the outcome of combat, not your own personal stats and skills. That doesn't mean that that is the most funnest way to handle combat, as the WWF wrestlers will tell you, but it is the one and only rpg way.
The difference between it is the difference between LARP and midieval combat battle guys that actually fight each other with skill and ability. They're both wierd, they both wield swords and brandish them with gusto, but in the case of larp you could be a 25th level warrior who clears the battlefield even though you are Steve Hawkins. |
Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:35 am |
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