Re: [NetEpic ML] Digest Number 441

From: <reptar_at_...>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:26:25 +1200

>
> Yup. Phase 2 it is. Pity the vast majority of the armies are GW. At least
> I'm not as far gone as my GM, who has over 100 seperate RPG systems...
>
> > I actually have a theory of "gamer evolution" :P The life of a gamer
> > consists of three different phases: 1. Player. Buy a game and play it
> > for some time. Repeat until you find yourself in phase 2. 2. Collector.
> > You have more games than you can ever hope to play within a realistic
> > time frame, yet you keep buying more because you LIKE to see
> what
> > different rules systems are like.
> > 3. Designer. You have ingested so many game systems you know most of the
> > common game mechanics in existence and quite a few of the uncommon ones.
> > When you hear about a new game your first thought is: "I wonder if it
> > uses mechanic X or Y or perhaps Z?". You start to get your own ideas on
> > how
> thigs
> > should be done and your drawes start to fill of pages of house rules.
>
 
Stage 4: finally get round to designing own game and playtesting
game with other stage 3's (our GM - and it *is* much better than any
other system)


 If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potentia
l, that word would be "meetings."
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