thread: 2005-12-03 : Closing GNS and RPG Theory is Good
On 2005-12-04, misuba wrote:
I think things would have been different at the Forge if A) standard phpBB-style forum software weren't so difficult to use, and B) the Articles page listed dates of publication on the articles, and contained the standard boilerplate of what order to read the articles in for the best odds of understanding how theory developed.
Telling people "you don't understand, here'a link," or even just "you don't understand, here's a search string," might have gone a lot further than just telling them, "you don't understand." The main problem is just approachability. It isn't there right now. (On which subject, here is a link to the Constructive Denial discussion for anyone else who is curious: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17334.0 )
This makes Curly go "Sounds like"
misuba, what Ron says in that link-- resonates with how the Forge-consensus reacts to GNS-centric dissenters: "Stop! You're mucking up our fragile, hard-won shared-progress."
Intriguing, that the Narr proponents have an everything-in-it's-place (Sim-like) theory-basis. While the Sim dissenters have an anything-goes (vaguely Narr-like) kitchen sink approach to theory.
--I'm not suggesting any profound meaning to this observation.-- I'm just saying it's counterintuitive to me.
Just scratching my head and going, "hunh."
