From:	IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject:	the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:28:45 -0400

At 19.14 07-15-99 -0400, you wrote:
>Cultural ettiquette is such a handwavable aspect of RPGing. I was

It isn't handwavable, not if you are a GM from Hell who has NPCs react
blankly to dice rolls, and requires that folks ROLE play.

>for a knife and fork when it didn't work out? My first guess is that
>you've just accepted chopstick usage as a skill not worth the effort

Bingo. The physical stuff isn't hard, so long as all the peices work and
you WANT to learn. I think that we just isolated a cuase for much of the
world's problems. <g>


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