ILAN14'S PROFILE

author=kentona
I was born a gamer, I will die a gamer, and only my controllers will mourn me.

author=CashmereCat
Fundamental RPGology - in other words, RPGs suck. No gutterbrain in their right mind can convince me otherwise, because I'm all about the spatial awareness of a tactical battle scheme intended to be board-game-like and better than chess. Every single move must be a well-thought-out scheme to enact an overall goal. I am the arbiter of pawns - I move them at will. Say I moved a single pawn forward two squares. That new position someone may never have experienced before, and I'm glad to savour it. But even if someone has been there before, I am experiencing new thoughts, new ideas, and new concepts that have never been cogitated by another meatsack in entirety's existence. Think about it - the permutations! The permutations!

Every battle is a non-anomaly, and every single action has predictable, deterministic, life-changing consequences. Think about the air you're breathing. Feel the inhale-exhale flow of life. That is the atomic substance of life's concerto. You see an orchestra, with violas, clarinets, pianos, xylophones, a large bass drum (him staring wide-eyed at the conductor, concentrating with his mighty force of will upon every beat), and all the other miscellanea of life listening in. Taking a step in this node of life to the next via some vast, mingling web of instances and relationships - life is the ultimate battle system. To emulate it is life to the bones of every man, even if he does not recognize it.

That is what we are trying to emulate. Any man that thinks otherwise is an idiot.