Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > Roleplaying in General

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-29-2010, 10:35 AM   #21
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

If the GM did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

Bill Stoddard
whswhs is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2010, 12:00 PM   #22
Hans Rancke-Madsen
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocket Man View Post
The fewer our Disadvantages, the more we resemble the Gods.
--Socrates


(Also noted for saying, in the midst of a campaign: "Crito, I owe 3 CP to Asclepius; will you remind me to pay the debt?")
As I recall, he was forced to leave the game early.


Hans
Hans Rancke-Madsen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2010, 12:16 PM   #23
ErhnamDJ
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: OK
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

“But whether the rules really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that they have either authorized such a game as we have had, or have been powerless to prevent it. In either case, they are unfit to exist.”

-- Lysander Spooner, after his first session in the Tomb of Horrors.
ErhnamDJ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2010, 05:10 PM   #24
sgtcallistan
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chatham, Kent, England
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

A GM who knows the shape of the players, who knows the maps, who is in accord with both heaven and earth, is a jewel beyond price; retain him!'
-Sonny Tzu
sgtcallistan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2010, 08:42 PM   #25
RyanW
 
RyanW's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

Alea non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. (Dice must not be multiplied beyond necessity)

If an Orc falls in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, who gets the XP?

For any closed system in equilibrium... Wandering Monster!

And a (slightly modified) Machiavelli quote that I certainly do not hold to be true, but some do:
It is necessary for him who lays out a game and arranges rules for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Edit: Adding More:

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. - Voltaire on dice rolls.
Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin on marathon game sessions.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. - William Shakespeare's argument against speech as a free action.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain on the complexity of the Attack of Opportunity rules.
__________________
RyanW
- Actually one normal sized guy in three tiny trenchcoats.

Last edited by RyanW; 11-29-2010 at 08:53 PM.
RyanW is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2010, 10:04 PM   #26
Anaraxes
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

Quote:
a (slightly modified) Machiavelli quote
Gold does not find good delvers, but good delvers are quite capable of finding gold.
Anaraxes is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2010, 09:37 AM   #27
Daigoro
 
Daigoro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

What doesn't kill us gives us more XP. - Nietzsche

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen to the GM more and talk over him less. - Diogenes

A PC is two souls abiding in one body. - Diogenes again.

Why not whip the player when the character misbehaves? - more Diogenes

Of what use is a game master who doesn't hurt anybody's hit points?

Discourse on GURPS and they pass by in droves, whistle and play D&D, and you've got an audience.



Okay, I found a Diogenes quote page, the last two are him too.
__________________
Collaborative Settings:
Cyberpunk: Duopoly Nation
Space Opera: Behind the King's Eclipse
And heaps of forum collabs, 30+ and counting!

Last edited by Daigoro; 11-30-2010 at 09:43 AM.
Daigoro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2010, 09:43 AM   #28
Anders
 
Anders's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

He must learn to act like two types of characters: knights and thieves. A thief is defenseless against orcs; a knight is defenseless against traps. A delver must learn to act like both the thief and the thief: he must learn, like the thief, how to recognize traps and, like the fighter, how to kill off orcs.
Machiavelli, The Delver

GMs wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
__________________
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” Marcus Aurelius

Last edited by Anders; 11-30-2010 at 10:22 AM.
Anders is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2010, 10:46 AM   #29
Michael Cule
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

The Scenery-Chewing LARPers Motto: I Play Therefore I Ham! (Graham Arnold, I am looking at you!)

And if we're doing Voltaire:

In that game, they kill a player-character from time to time, to encourage the others.
__________________
Michael Cule,
Genius for Hire,
Gaming Dinosaur Second Class
Michael Cule is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2010, 05:55 PM   #30
sgtcallistan
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chatham, Kent, England
Default Re: RPG Philosophy

Three blind GM's were invited to run a pre-written game module:
the first felt the shape of it's dice and declared it was 'gamist',
the second listened to himself run the game and declared it was 'narrativist',
the last- ah, to **** with it. ;)

Last edited by sgtcallistan; 11-30-2010 at 05:56 PM. Reason: additional
sgtcallistan is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
philosophy

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:00 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.