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 Jul 8 2004, 04:16 PM
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Great Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222  |
As long as we're playing Shadowrun, this is me:
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Jul 8 2004, 05:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 5-May 02 From: Various Planets Across the Galaxy Member No.: 2,689 |
Interesting. What I want out of shadowrun really depends on my mood at the time. Most days I tend to float around the middle area, favoring fantasy/realism off and on.
What I want also depends on who I'm playing with. If I ever got enough friends for a game I'd probably not care for realism because raw uncut fun is what I'd be after. Laughing, joking, smiling, insulting, you know, fun. Bunch of strangers as in here? More along the "top" line between realism and fantasy. Magician? Fantasy. Decker? Fantasy. Sammy? Realism. I'm still on the learning curve of roleplaying because I get so precious little practice so simple + fantasy (IE:AD&D) is about where I'm at in terms of roleplaying. Trying to make the leap over to realism (hence, shadowrun, a world closing in on our own) because I prefer a basis for comparison. |
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Jul 8 2004, 05:46 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Of course what I want out of Shadowrun cannot always be the same, in that respect such a triangle is silly (except as a "probability cloud" model, electron-style). But I almost always play Shadowrun with the same guys and the same campaign has been running for a long time. Also, to allow for such simple ASCII art, I decided it'd be better to vary to definitions of the arbitrary dimensions of the triangle instead of the location of my Preference Spot.
D&D, IMNSHO, is halfway down the triangle, one space off Fantasy-Simplicity line. |
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Jul 8 2004, 06:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 5-May 02 From: Various Planets Across the Galaxy Member No.: 2,689 |
perhaps a line would be better? Number it like, 1000 to 0 to 1000 or something? Coordinate Grid? Ugh....this is turning into some really ugly math problem that I just don't want to look at.
AD&D, 3e at least, is foolishly simple and fantasy happy so yeah, I pretty much agree. I prefer the many dice that it uses to SR's d6's only because D6's tend to hate me. :( SR has a lot more potential for interest and actually doing meaningful things. AD&D's m4d ph47 lewt mentality just doesn't jive with me very well, and a lot of campaigns degenerate into that I imagine. There are exceptions, and I actually got to be in one and it was quite fun. Of course, given the same circumstances only in SR and I'm sure I'dve died from sheer immersion into what was going on. |
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Jul 8 2004, 10:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 8-June 03 Member No.: 4,696 |
I can buy realism being opposed to fantasy, and simplicity being opposed to realism, but simplicity opposed to fantasy?
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