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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Sat

Dec 17
2005

03:46



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Paradox two: bad acting

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Carl D Cravens wrote:

CDC>Oh, you're talking about the game Scott Heine ran, which really didn't 
CDC>get very far.  I enjoyed it because it was people acting funny, but 
CDC>not because there was any real roleplaying going on.

Yup, very "lite."  I like convention games like that, though.  As an 
onlooker, anyway.  (And yeah, I was technically playing in it, but that 
was just so I'd have a seat at the table...)

CDC>I'm talking about the "it's not really Hero System, we just call it 
CDC>that, and it's not 'live action' because GenCon doesn't allow that 
CDC>(wink, wink), but we're going to line up our chairs like they were a 
CDC>starship cockpit, and our only rule is we've got these three 
CDC>stuffed-fabric dinosaur dice with a lobster (a lobster's a dinosaur!) 
CDC>and 'other dinosaurs' on them, and rolling the dinosaurs is good."

Oh.  That.  The one where I said "Neato, so you decided to *not* warn us 
this was a LARP, and here's me in my hip-to-ankle brace with a shredded 
knee.  Thank you, Mr. GM."  And somehow, we let him talk us into staying.

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

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