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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 1:38 pm
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(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.
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm
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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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 5:37 pm
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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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 6:02 pm
(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
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 7:00 pm
(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.
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RE: Don't underestimate the power of the dork side
March 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm
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
March 7, 2021 at 7:34 pm
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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.....