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Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
(March 6, 2021 at 9:55 am)Eleven Wrote: What brings out your inner dork?

Share it with us.

For me, it's classic D&D.

Woof. We've got our first FastCAT and VST tracking event both coming up in March.
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#12
RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
Forum role-playing. I have a BA in English and use it to write freeform play-by-post rps online. No dice, no stats. Just story. But I can feel myself dorking out when talking to outsiders about it.

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#13
RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
I'm a news junkie. I don't know how high that rates on the dork scale, but some would say a lot.
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#14
RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
(March 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm)Five Wrote: Forum role-playing. I have a BA in English and use it to write freeform play-by-post rps online. No dice, no stats. Just story. But I can feel myself dorking out when talking to outsiders about it.

That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
(March 7, 2021 at 6:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru

Oh, no, I play. No, the role-playing I do is collaborative writing. I have a character and you have a character and we agree upon a basic story premise and the "playing of the game" is us trading back and forth in a series of posts written like a story. There's no GM; I don't write for or control your character and you don't control mine(unless we have NPCs that we share control of). So, the posts can be anywhere from a line to 1,000+ words, where my character does or says something in order to move the story forward and give your character something to react to.

The idea of it is like a round robin story game, except with the type I do, it's kind of odd to read back over the story because it changes perspective between the characters every post and sometimes the basic plot isn't defined beyond a skeleton or a goal to shoot for. The point is the character interactions and telling the story through that.

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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
(March 7, 2021 at 6:25 pm)Five Wrote:
(March 7, 2021 at 6:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.

Boru

Oh, no, I play. No, the role-playing I do is collaborative writing. I have a character and you have a character and we agree upon a basic story premise and the "playing of the game" is us trading back and forth in a series of posts written like a story. There's no GM; I don't write for or control your character and you don't control mine(unless we have NPCs that we share control of). So, the posts can be anywhere from a line to 1,000+ words, where my character does or says something in order to move the story forward and give your character something to react to.

The idea of it is like a round robin story game, except with the type I do, it's kind of odd to read back over the story because it changes perspective between the characters every post and sometimes the basic plot isn't defined beyond a skeleton or a goal to shoot for. The point is the character interactions and telling the story through that.

That's impressive. I'm not enough of a writer to manage something like that.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#17
RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
True crime...I know way too much about serial killers and forensics.

Had I known about forensics back in the day that may have been my choice of careers...the same cannot be said if I had known about serial killers.
  
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
Somebody told me they liked playing RPG's....

I said it sounds fun - 

But I'm a bit nervous about the kind of people who would sell you a rocket propelled grenade.....
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