[UA] Albino Love (OT)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Patrick O'Duffy <redfern at thehub.com.au> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I think you're wrong. You're
> taking an attitude held by
> _some_ players of WW games, and projecting that
> attitude onto the games and
> the company as a whole.

No, I'm taalking about an attitude held by most avid
Wwolfie gamers.  Again, the only thing I have to work
from is the Portland Camarilla, the Colorado Springs
Camarilla, a couple of truly unfortunate incidents at
a DAV Haunted House I helped out with last October and
the internet.  

To me, of course, that's most.  Others may well have
had good experiences and met people of sterling
character who enjoyed changes the rules of their
beloved game.  Perhaps they didn't even make you play
Rock-Paper-Scissors all night long. (This is a
specific example.)

> 
> And why would picking up a WW supplement be a bad
> thing?

Encouraging the "attitude," paying for rules I don't
like (and I really don't like most Wwolfie rules.  Did
I mention that I don't like rolling a lot of dice all
at once?) and an often insipid and choking backstory
make me loathe to pay money for a pretty cover.

While things may be different in other parts of the
world, if I buy a game here and tote it to a
convention or some other gaming event, I'm bound to
run into players who either insist on doing it "by the
book" or who leave halfway through the session.

I like having players, but I also like being able to
run a fun game (if there's a good story involved, so
much the better.)  I prefer games like Unknown Armies
to WW, Teenagers from Outerspace or Axiom to Trinity,
even D&D is preferrable to Dark Ages or what's that
new one? Exhausted?, because the worlds are "wide
open" and seem to be remaining this way.

On the other hand, I don't want to discourage people
in general from buying White Wolf (although I did at
one time.)  I just want to discourage people I like
from doing so. (Fortunately, I don't like many
people.)

In fact, if I don't like someone, I tend to encourage
them to pick up a copy or two.  I've actually helped
my local game store get a few WW converts this way.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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