I agree with CP and moon, this is weak sauce, still useable, just not a very sophisticated tool. great for people that don't like to read and prefer just to scan text. Go to Comment

Damn good. It smacks of the Terror in france with the new intellectuals killing all the old intellectuals.

The Peasents: Not being educated in a secular fashion, the peasentary is unable to imagine a world with out religion. And with the science of the day not being able to give all the explainations that we take for granted the people again begin to see supernatural hands in things such as illnesses, bouts of insomnia, and the weather. But instead of praying to the old gods, they have begun to pray to the Wizard Frost. And indeed a less than chivilrac Bard has been traveling the rural settlements claiming to be a Disciple of the Wizard, and delivering seromns outlining his will. The PCs are charged by the Wizard himself not only with tracking done the Bard but dissmissing any claims of the Wizards divine status. Go to Comment

This has a very nice fable quality to it, and would be an interesting minor subplot. Go to Comment

After just reading 30 firemen I was extremely underwhelmed by this one. Just few bits of flair could have made this a great resource, some heraldry , more talk of fighting styles, description of the mounts or family background.

I'd really like to see this redone. Go to Comment

The is a long list of rulers with little expansion on or exploration of the rulers or the governments they created. I enjoyed the quick review of mytho-historical characters, and while it is tempting to argue your view of Mussolini or whether a Plato, King could be disinterested in politics and still be interested in being a good leader, those are only disagreements of phrase or word choice. Your points are made clearly Go to Comment

Very nice, if your are playing/running a tightly regulated feudal society the PCs would love to slide into such an unregulated center of commerce. Go to Comment

It is nice to have these all on a well formatted list.

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So what is this going to be about?

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I love reading things that strike me as completely original, I know this post has already gotten a lot of love, but I will give it a little more.

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I really like the ideas behind what you are describing here. Though the description lacks a personal touch, more like a description of a description. But this is great platform for new ideas and different directions. Full disclosure, i have not read the user submitted ideas. But I think this is sweet idea, smoothly realized. Go to Comment

They can eat, but can they drink. Might you find these tortured souls hanging out alongside distilleries or vineyards?

Also what of their written works, wouldn't their stories be full of secretes of the realm. Or could they keep up a correspondence with memebers of the living world. Could one these thing live a life entirely through written messages; letter, journals, graffiti etc? Go to Comment

Very nice creation myth, and it sets up a nice epic conflict. I would like to hear the history from the prospective of the demons and false prophets. Go to Comment

Sometimes you just need a really big crossbow or ax or sword. It is beautifully simple and well described. Go to Comment

Hmmmm

 

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I love this one, it has a very classic DnD/Mythos feel to it, I can't point to what I loved about it, but I now I loved it one.

 

One thing: this sentence is wrong, it has the feel of something that has been edited some many times that important words and phrases have been lost.

  What only a handful of learned scholars is that in combination, these items were created as a whole for the purpose of pandemonium.What only a handful of learned scholars is that in combination, these items were created as a whole for the purpose of pandemonium.

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I think this is solid, it contains at least two ways this could be a jumping off point to a subplot or an adventure

-it is the side arm of an officer...is the officer the bandit, did the bandit steal it from the officer,

-it has devotion of the god on the side

-it could also be a combination of these two facts that lead to something of interest.

I have said this before, but I think post of items and such for gaming suggest more than they say. I think this does that. Go to Comment

I really like most of your stuff Scrasamax, particularly your high tech post/sci-fi posts.  But this article is a little much, I was hoping it would be a flippant and amusing piece. But it is instead another argument for talking oneself and by extension gaming too seriously.  Maybe I missed the tone, but how can you write a article like this with out a sense of irony or absurdity? 

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I do think it is polite to comment on all the subs you can. People post things here in part because they want comments. But people also post things to give a wider audience to their work. Role-playing can be a media, like theater, comic books or any other type of narrative art. Yet in role-playing we often have a very small audience. This site gives us a chance to share our work with others who have similar interests, and sharing our work is one of the reasons we have this hobby. So think AG is right, it is important to be an audience on this site as well as an author, because a reciprocal relationship where everyone is an author or performer and an audience member is what makes role-playing games more than just games.

I do think voting serves a purpose. It allows the readers to feel more of an interaction and involvement with the posts. The voting is also a type currency which people can barter around and it creates a loose hierarchy. So in essence you have a game, these currency and hierarchy relationships are also the chief mechanic of most facebook “games”.


That is why I think we should view the game part of this site as absurd or superfluous. When you start to think that the your average post rank or experience reflects you talent or ability then I say you are ascribing to much value to the votes. A ascribing to much value to the game part of this interaction demeans the other more important interaction. I think Scras’s post, which asserts that his ranking are based on years of experience with literature and gaming, places too much meaning on the voting mechanics.

But just in case I am wrong, here is some exp.
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so at the time your wrote this voting was a problem? Was it hurting the function of the site? Go to Comment