RE: (TFT) SciFi TFT, was: What happened to the TFT list ?

["Ray Rangel" <ray.rangel@cox.net>]

No problem. We all have off days from time to time. Everyone, occasionally,
comes across different than intended--it's the nature of the medium and
we're only human.  Whar matters, in the long run, is that everyone gets to
express themselves.

 
Ray Rangel
ray.rangel@cox.net
http://xraysvision.blogspot.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf
> Of David Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:23 PM
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) SciFi TFT, was: What happened to the TFT list ?
> 
> Ray,
> 
> Maybe I came off sounding a bit harsh.  Sorry about that.  I'm having
> heart problems and sometimes I lose my temper.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Ray Rangel wrote:
> 
> >> Yes, though personally, I would agree with Jay that games designed
> >> this
> >> way are removing the game from the story, because those elements are
> >> not
> >> interactive. The more constrained the possibilities, the less
> >> interaction
> >> and collaborative creation there is - the more it is just fixed
> >> storytelling and the less it is a game.
> >
> > I guess that, in a large part, what makes an RPG a "game" for me is
> > the role
> > playing and cooperation between the players.
> >
> > Cooperation occurs in a campaign that places the PCs within the
> > context of a
> > story with a plot or in an "open" type game where in the players
> exist
> > within a domain created by a setting and the players are allowed
> > "run free"
> > having random encounters from time to time.
> >
> > One might say that a campaign game is a novel with a plot that has a
> > beginning, middle, and end. While, on the other-hand, the
> > continuous setting
> > game is more like an episodic short stories or periodicals. Star
> > Wars vs.
> > Star Trek.
> >
> > In any case, my experience has been that whether the game is a
> > novella or
> > episodic, the story or setting is a vehicle for the game play, not
> > an end
> > unto itself. On the other-hand, there are those GM's that delight in
> > creating universe after universe. Some have formed a sub-hobby of
> > bolting on
> > various modifications their settings. However, that's the GM's
> > hobby, not
> > necessarily shared by the players.
> >
> > Ray Rangel
> > ray.rangel@cox.net
> > http://xraysvision.blogspot.com/
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