This came up on an internal Phoenyx list, where the committee is pondering
whether the Phoenyx' (unwritten) charter encompasses "simming." (The game
proposal in question was a game based on the TV talk show(!) "The View."
As Dave Barry would say, I Am Not Making This Up.)
And I thought to myself, what the heck, it's a general roleplaying topic,
and GMAST hasn't had any traffic of late. So here, compare and contrast.
Talk amongst yourselves.
(And no, I don't think the below-quoted author reads this group.)
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:43:45 cdt
From: Jason Knight
My two cents:
In one camp, we have Real Roleplayers, many of whom bemoan
the fact that their hobby is ghettoized, and never catches on with
the mainstream population. In another camp, we have Dedicated
Simmers, who are generally blissfully unaware of the Roleplayers'
existence, but who represent everything that's missing from the
Roleplayers hobby: they're TV-watching non-geeks,
disproportionately female.
If I really wanted to make a fortune and revolutionize the
roleplaying industry, I wouldn't prattle about Open Gaming Licenses
and whatnot - Hasbro is barking up the wrong tree. No, I'd find a
way to repackage roleplaying games as "sims." Be careful what
you wish for, Real Roleplayers. Simmers /are/ the face of
roleplaying introduced to the masses.
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