thread: 2005-05-10 : How Do You Design a Mechanic?
On 2005-05-12, GB Steve wrote:
My last point, whatever my history with Ron might be, was to be taken as a joke. I'm sorry if my flippancy was out of place.
But then I am genuinely surprised that what most people call roleplaying is seen as unhealthy and possibly even damaging, by other roleplayers. Sure, it's not the way I play but to marginalise them as fetishists seems a bit far fetched to me. I'm all for challenging the model and doing things differently myself but not because what they are doing is something inherently bad.
I want to do things differently through personal preference for a different style of gaming, to see how far the roleplaying idea can be pushed, to explore new boundaries.
I can see that one of the boundaries you might want to cross is mainstream acceptance but I wouldn't want that to come at the cost of marginalising happy and harmless gamers.
