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Post by mao on Apr 18, 2020 7:41:37 GMT -5
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 18, 2020 9:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by mao on Apr 18, 2020 9:30:55 GMT -5
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ampleframework
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Post by ampleframework on Apr 29, 2020 10:17:14 GMT -5
The story from Secrets of Blackmoor about how Arneson turned the Banania Braunstein game on its head is a thing of beauty and worth watching.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 29, 2020 11:00:58 GMT -5
The story from Secrets of Blackmoor about how Arneson turned the Banania Braunstein game on its head is a thing of beauty and worth watching. Yeah, I have always wondered what it would be like to have an Arneson as a player in my game. |
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Post by ampleframework on Apr 29, 2020 14:23:42 GMT -5
Based on that one description I knew I loved this man, even though I'd never met him, because I've known people who play like that. Deconstructionist but not in an obnoxious way. Poking around at the seams and edges of the constraints of the game scenario to see how much he can get away with. That's raw gamer mentality. Not doing it to annoy the referee or to ruin the scenario but just to see how much he can accomplish or circumvent. It's like one of those genius kids who takes apart clocks and reconstructs them, if that makes sense as an analogy. Wesely was a genius, too, and so was Gygax and of course Barker, but Arneson was a specific and rare type of genius, I think.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Apr 29, 2020 19:19:47 GMT -5
Based on that one description I knew I loved this man, even though I'd never met him, because I've known people who play like that. Deconstructionist but not in an obnoxious way. Poking around at the seams and edges of the constraints of the game scenario to see how much he can get away with. That's raw gamer mentality. Not doing it to annoy the referee or to ruin the scenario but just to see how much he can accomplish or circumvent. It's like one of those genius kids who takes apart clocks and reconstructs them, if that makes sense as an analogy. Wesely was a genius, too, and so was Gygax and of course Barker, but Arneson was a specific and rare type of genius, I think. Yeah, I also think that Arneson was on a whole different level from the others and, as you noted, a rare type of genius. I think a lot of people have that potential if it were nourished, but public school and life just beats it out of us before it has a chance to grow. Sometimes you just make a leap and see things, but you do not know how you got there, but you know it is right. That combined with a childlike joy in the doing and being. I think that was what Arneson had and you have to have both, in abundance. |
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Post by mao on Apr 30, 2020 5:55:43 GMT -5
Based on that one description I knew I loved this man, even though I'd never met him, because I've known people who play like that. Deconstructionist but not in an obnoxious way. Poking around at the seams and edges of the constraints of the game scenario to see how much he can get away with. That's raw gamer mentality. Not doing it to annoy the referee or to ruin the scenario but just to see how much he can accomplish or circumvent. It's like one of those genius kids who takes apart clocks and reconstructs them, if that makes sense as an analogy. Wesely was a genius, too, and so was Gygax and of course Barker, but Arneson was a specific and rare type of genius, I think. Yeah, I also think that Arneson was on a whole different level from the others and, as you noted, a rare type of genius. I think a lot of people have that potential if it were nourished, but public school and life just beats it out of us before it has a chance to grow. Sometimes you just make a leap and see things, but you do not know how you got there, but you know it is right. That combined with a childlike joy in the doing and being. I think that was what Arneson had and you have to have both, in abundance. I never knew all about this Arnson stuff until I came here, keep up the word! |
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