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Message no. 1
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: Roleplaying vs. Rollplaying (was: "Strago's Apology thingie")
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:37:32 EST
In a message dated 12/1/1999 12:00:32 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
strago@***.com writes:

> Again, I apologize, I didn't mean to insult the way you play. Sometimes I
> just
> like to roll dice and others I like to actually role-play. The pity is that
> sometimes in the group I get to play in it seems like rolling dice wins
out
> and
> I'm not too happy about that. It was more frustration on my part than a
> condemnation on what others do.

Bud, I feel for your situation. Mercifully, with the changes of membership
into the HHH games, this has *really* started to change for the better. We
are now have more and more games that are predominantly role-playing, with
the only dice roles being held by (*gasp*) the decker(s) and the people doing
the information heisting/review.

Though the gunbunnies are going to have their day soon. They're going to
Meisenberg (yes, I'm running Tailchaser at home and on the Internet); but not
until they raid a university's data-bank...


-K
"Bastard GM" (as dubbed by Doc' ;-)
[Hoosier Hacker House]
[http://members.aol.com/hhackerh/index.html]
ICQ#-51511837
Message no. 2
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Roleplaying vs. Rollplaying (was: "Strago's Apology thingie")
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:56:54 -0500
Ereskanti@***.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/1/1999 12:00:32 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> strago@***.com writes:
>
> > Again, I apologize, I didn't mean to insult the way you play. Sometimes I
> > just
> > like to roll dice and others I like to actually role-play. The pity is that
> > sometimes in the group I get to play in it seems like rolling dice wins
> out
> > and
> > I'm not too happy about that. It was more frustration on my part than a
> > condemnation on what others do.
>
> Bud, I feel for your situation. Mercifully, with the changes of membership
> into the HHH games, this has *really* started to change for the better. We
> are now have more and more games that are predominantly role-playing, with
> the only dice roles being held by (*gasp*) the decker(s) and the people doing
> the information heisting/review.
>

Anyway I can get in on that?

>
> Though the gunbunnies are going to have their day soon. They're going to
> Meisenberg (yes, I'm running Tailchaser at home and on the Internet); but not
> until they raid a university's data-bank...
>
> -K
> "Bastard GM" (as dubbed by Doc' ;-)
> [Hoosier Hacker House]
> [http://members.aol.com/hhackerh/index.html]
> ICQ#-51511837

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