How embarrassing

[channonyarrow]

Quiz on skin disease or D&D character, posted at work. I took it.


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Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character? Score: 94% (15 out of 16)

Note, please, that even though I work for the company that makes D&D, I got this many correct because I know a skin disease when I see it. Except for one.

Comments

Re: Okay

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Nope, didn't take it personally. *g* I got over that when I went to a barbecue last summer and found out that I was on the menu according to some of the people there. Actually, it wasn't that bad, nor was it that traumatic (I'd already done GenCon, where we announced it) but it was kind of funny.

It helps that I really am genuinely behind 4.0 - I do think that, for me at least, it's a better product. It encourages more social interaction and more character development, and lessens the role of combat, and since that was a lot of why I switched to WoD, that makes sense. I actually was going to try to figure out what percentage of WoD players were female and what percentage of D&D players were male; I think the correlation is VERY high, but that's market research that people aren't interested in, as far as I can tell.

People keep falling back on how 90% of comment card replies we got, when putting comment cards in the D&D core books, were from men, but they're ignoring a fallacy: All that proves is that 90% of people who fill out our comment cards are male.

WoD???

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

I hope the new version does attract more new players. I've never gotten into online RP, but know that's a market that needs to be explored/exploited so that table top gaming doesn't go the way of the dinosaurs.

As a consumer, I'm just not a fan of planned obsolescence, and didn't understand the need for a new set of rules when I'm still learning the last version.

Which reminds me, I still need new shoes, and a different car. o.O

Re: WoD???

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I can't even comment on our online plans. I just...well. I agree with you; I don't think our plans really thoroughly address the problem.

As a consumer, planned obsolescence makes me nuts, but it's the fundament of most collectible models. It's actually a big reason I don't play collectible games (and most of the people here either still play Magic or they stopped at Ice Age, when they figured out what we were up to). The other is the random-booster model that makes me absolutely bananas.

Not sure what the comment subject was, but I was referring to World Of Darkness, the White Wolf setting (which I haven't played since before their v2.0, Gehenna). It's more story-driven.

Yes

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

I was curious about the acronym. One of the people in my group plays something they call "Amber". I'm not sure if that's an actual gaming name, or just the name of their campaign, but it consists of diceless role-playing. Which I've tried a couple of times before.

I enjoy the role-playing aspects of D&D, always have, but also feel the need to kill things on occasion. D&D is the perfect outlet for that. I'm not saying I'll go on a homicidal rampage if I don't get my gaming fix, but it makes the stupid people more tolerable if I can imagine them as an orc that's holding some innocent hostage, and I'll be dealing with them more effectively when I get to "game" again.

Re: Yes

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I used to say that it was only gaming that kept me from knocking over 7-11s, and it wasn't that far off from true. *g* It's the best way to vent those stupid-people frustrations. But I don't fit into D&D's model in so many ways right now; it'd be excellent if fourth really does change that. Lately I've been into online journal gaming; I can be EXACTLY as creepy and cracked-out and SCARY as I want to be. There was a period of extreme stress where I was coming up with the worst warning I possibly could and writing to fit that.

I've heard of Amber, but I've never played it. I've played very few actual systems, really, or at least long-term. I mean, I've played like four sessions of Shadowrun; I have no fucking clue how it works. Have you ever tried GURPS? That's a really flexible system (and it actually is!)

Re: Yes

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who would use GURPS stuff to supplement his campaigns. Whether it was our "Top Secret" espionage game, or our D&D game.

His brother-in-law would run Shadowrun for us. I LOVE that game, and am not very happy about it being revised for a 4th edition either. ;)

I don't know anyone else that plays it though, and our group disbanded after my former friend and wife moved to North Carolina.