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Post by tetramorph on Feb 28, 2015 18:28:52 GMT -5
robkuntz, okay, I think I read you now. It is about focusing on the immersion over obsession with mechanics. It is about making sure that mechanics remain simple, unobtrusive and helpful toward the description of the imaginative world, rather than the other way around: complicated mechanics forcing you to imagine what kind of world they are describing. Such retro-world-making has driven the RPG "industry" into creating its own "self-referential" legendaria -- and I HATE it! That is exactly why folks return to 0e. And exactly what this particular 0e forums is really focused on. You are in the right place here and you have good company. Did I earn any more experience points? 1500 more and I lvl up!
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Post by robkuntz on Feb 28, 2015 20:23:07 GMT -5
Quite so. We can always roll a die. And we can always have fun. "But when fun merges with enchantment we've discovered Fantasy." (another quote from my book and thus another copyright notice as above) Don't get too greedy for experience. It took me 47 years. You've got a few more ahead of you.
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 4, 2015 10:33:31 GMT -5
Rob, I just took note of the fact that you recently got married. Congratulations! I hope you were able to take sometime off to yourselves.
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Post by robkuntz on Mar 4, 2015 17:16:38 GMT -5
Actually the date was reset to coincide with my upcoming move overseas, at which time I will announce the nuptials. Thanks for the encouraging words, of course!
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 4, 2015 21:40:36 GMT -5
Actually the date was reset to coincide with my upcoming move overseas, at which time I will announce the nuptials. Thanks for the encouraging words, of course! Well here is wishing you the best for both the wedding and the move! Overseas, what country is I may ask?
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Post by robkuntz on Mar 4, 2015 22:13:23 GMT -5
I thought I was writing the book... Well, they make the finest champagne there... of which a few magnums I will no doubt sample...
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Post by The Archivist on Mar 4, 2015 22:32:49 GMT -5
Mr Kuntz is on this board! That is way too cool! Have to slip around quietly through the trees and brush so I can get close enough to the fire to where I can hear him tell stories.
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Post by robkuntz on Mar 4, 2015 22:58:31 GMT -5
My full story will be readily available upon my death whereupon I become the sum of my existence. Historians will no doubt have an eager and perplexing time explaining it then, and I'll be somewhere laughing my ass off about it all. Up until that point my life-as-story is still evolving. Thanks for the welcome.
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Post by The Bear Hawk on Mar 13, 2015 12:11:43 GMT -5
My full story will be readily available upon my death whereupon I become the sum of my existence. Historians will no doubt have an eager and perplexing time explaining it then, and I'll be somewhere laughing my ass off about it all. Up until that point my life-as-story is still evolving. Thanks for the welcome. At least I am younger than you, unlike some of the old codgers on here , so maybe I will live long enough to see that "full story" published. On a more serious note, I am glad you are here!
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 22, 2015 1:11:50 GMT -5
My full story will be readily available upon my death whereupon I become the sum of my existence. Historians will no doubt have an eager and perplexing time explaining it then, and I'll be somewhere laughing my ass off about it all. Up until that point my life-as-story is still evolving. Thanks for the welcome. At least I am younger than you, unlike some of the old codgers on here , so maybe I will live long enough to see that "full story" published. On a more serious note, I am glad you are here! I would hope that any biography (if that is what the full story means) would be published a bit earlier than posthumously, although that would have its advantages.
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Post by robkuntz on Mar 22, 2015 11:29:04 GMT -5
Heh. It was metaphorical, as we all become the sum of our own existences (a complete history) eventually. Is it up to me to explicate myself? Well. If one were to view the wiki article on me I should say YES, as it is the most dry, idea-less, lifeless thing that could ever substitute for even part of the real me. So much for condensed POV's which strip the essence from everything by reducing same to a narrow expression only, in my case, a shopping list of objects minus anything vital as a human or a designer. My fiancee has suggested I continue my memoirs, but I am less interested in the past than I am with the continued expression of ideas that the past, in sum, has forwarded. I am more inclined to recount the present as future than the present as past.
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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 23, 2015 8:52:35 GMT -5
The Wikipedia by design is a lifeless thing. Some much false information is promulgated on it, it is quite sad. Yeah, those things can be like obits. There are lots of things I like to read about people, I am not really into autobiographies or biographies. I would rather see what someone has done, is doing and hear what they will do/plan to do. Autobiographies or biographies tend to be TMI and only touch the surface of the more interesting non-gossipy things. I want to know how someone changed things, not what they had for breakfast. (Unless it was a really good unique breakfast from someplace in the world that I have never been and the description of that breakfast moves me to travel and explore.)
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 7, 2015 9:05:51 GMT -5
You may already have seen this Rob, but I wanted to post it here too so that you would not miss it. If you follow the link Stair lift needed for Jeff Perren and scroll down to the 2nd picture it says The sign Jeff is holding says:
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Post by robkuntz on Apr 8, 2015 9:58:51 GMT -5
Very Gratifying. I missed Gary Con this year due to many factors, but Paul Stormberg had Jeff running C&R there in his Legends of Wargaming events. I'll be missing both Jeff and the USA cons when I move overseas, but there are other ways of staying in touch.
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 8, 2015 11:17:20 GMT -5
I don't know if Jeff has internet access, but if you talk with him please let him know that he has a standing invitation to come here and have a forum for Chainmail and C & R or anything else he would like to talk about.
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Post by robkuntz on Apr 8, 2015 12:04:43 GMT -5
You should be able to contact him through his daughter: victoriacserep@hotmail.com
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 8, 2015 13:28:38 GMT -5
You should be able to contact him through his daughter: victoriacserep@hotmail.com Thank you, I will give that a try. I just wondered since some people don't always read email from people they don't know and it just goes into the spam folder.
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Post by robkuntz on Apr 8, 2015 16:05:02 GMT -5
Tell her I sent you, like in the subject line, "Rob Kuntz sent me..." or some such...
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 8, 2015 16:12:15 GMT -5
Tell her I sent you, like in the subject line, "Rob Kuntz sent me..." or some such... I already sent it, but I put in as part of the subject line that we have you in common. Hopefully I will get a reply.
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