patricky

Woah, people play that?

I mean, I can kinda-sorta understand some weird little wackjob giggling to himself as he stays up all night typing perv tables on the computer in his parents' basement -- in fact, after reading a large section of the "creepiest gamers" thread, I can envision this a lot more vividly than I'd like -- but the concept of the wackjob then putting his work out on the Interweb for all the world to see, and people reading it, and those people then getting together and trying to play it... that's where my brain pretty much breaks down, sputters out, and dies on the road of understanding.

I'm learning all kinds of things these days.

I'm having great fun reading through all the threads about horrible GMs, bonehead players, least spectacular PC deaths and so forth over at rpg.net... but I need to bug you for a translation note, as my Geekerese skills are failing me:

What's a "Mary Sue"? I've seen this term pop up a couple of times now, and the context just isn't giving me enough to figure out the meaning.

Woah.

I've gotta say, I have actually had the amazing good luck to never encounter a Mary Sue in my roleplaying career. Well, apart from one shortlived GM's talking ferret. He didn't really last long in our campaign.

"Little Ellen dies of the croup because her mother has neglected to get her shoe repaired" sounds like a pretty good end for one, though.

Surreal nothing. It is perfectly sensical!

Which book?

Also: darn it, I just started getting into rpg.net. Bummer. I'm sure you know what's best to salvage your own sanity, of course, but that's one less area of possible overlap.

I do not (yet) post there, though I've been thinking of it. Doubt I have the time to sustain another online forum, though; I'm already twice as slow responding here as I ought to be. Mostly I just read the articles and look for interesting ideas to adapt to my own campaign. So, uh, resign away. Yes. Because you needed my permission to do that. Clearly.

I do not have that book, I have to admit. But now I'll have to look into poaching a copy. I've been needing more ideas for monks and fighters anyway.

No worries. I just wanted to seize the opportunity to gloat about the awesomeness of my doodled dungeons, particularly as I'm working on a new one this afternoon.

And yeah, bitter scorn is a requirement of longtime GMs as well. I imagine game designers are the next step up on the hierarchy. You guys must be so marinated in misanthropy.