Comments on: Meme time again

By: Carl Cravens

Carl Cravens — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:43:56 +0000

Why did I not see this earlier? Maybe I read “Meme time again” and skipped the rest, not noticing that my name is at the bottom.

I _usually_ don’t do memes, but I’d do this one if I could think of five things. Maybe I just don’t have enough friends or peers. Or maybe I can _understand_ obsessions of all types. Maybe I just can’t think up answers on the spot. Everything I can think of is on the TV. (Sports, CSI, Trek, Reality TV shows, and Friends.)

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:15:21 +0000

I’ll try to remember to do this when I get home.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:45:42 +0000

When roleplayers get drunk they just shout “Verisimillitude!! Verisimillitude!!”.

By: Silkenray

Silkenray — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:19:41 +0000

Roleplaying convention erupting into drunken violence… Something with Steve present? And rubber swords?

By: Amadan

Amadan — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:36:15 +0000

Well, my CHC game was/is an attempt to do superheroes in a semi-plausible manner. You might also check out the Wild Cards series of novels.

As for calculating the odds for dice pools, that is why I wrote SmallRoller (http://www.fnordistan.com/smallroller.html)

By: Ghoul

Ghoul — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:57:51 +0000

On point (4), I’d really recommend checking out “Dogs in the Vineyard”, which is one of the examples of dice pools done right. It’s also the coolest game of the 21st century, such as the 21st century has progressed as yet.

But, in general, you’re exactly right. In fact, even when designers do understand the probabilities (which the WW people don’t, given that they show a wrongly-calculated success probability in most of their books), such as in L5R where a well-calculated success table was included as an appendix, they still failed to implement them in a meaningful and effective way.

I think I may pick up this meme when I’m home tonight.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:39:23 +0000

Before I start, how much free server space have you got?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:06:44 +0000

What have you got against that poor 14XX?

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:50:28 +0000

Oh, go on then:

1. Uriah Heep
2. Memes
3. Blogging
4. GWR tank engines
5. Role Playing Games

Only kidding

You’re right, I don’t do memes. Which is a shame, as I’m getting an overwhelming urge to mention designer yoghurts with cr*p adverts.