tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post1883310281942235633..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Needing a TigerAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-61002677668242564922018-06-01T15:57:44.343-06:002018-06-01T15:57:44.343-06:00All those comments are listed as "Anonymous&q...All those comments are listed as "Anonymous" because Blogger keeps them "bonded" to the e-mail adress the poster used. If they, many years later, delete that e-mail account, or if it gets deleted due to inactivity, all the comments will turn to "Anonymous".<br /><br />Yeah, it sucks.<br /><br />Hope that you put the Campaign Senex blog back online. I've found your blog 40-something days ago and I'm reading it all, chronologically, from the very start. So I'm fucking curious to finish reading the campaign.<br /><br />Greetings from Brazil.Daniel Oliveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10390093666908725672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-72127173792835473102018-06-01T12:17:28.017-06:002018-06-01T12:17:28.017-06:00You are going to make a book out of these posts, a...You are going to make a book out of these posts, aren't you Alexis?<br /><br />They're so interesting and, being grounded in real examples of gameplay, concrete. Any DM who has a session count into the double digits can't help but nod along. <br /><br />Seriously readers, $1.50 per post is excellent value for any DM (and frankly still good value for a player interested in improving their play and avoiding common pitfalls) and think! You also get the wonderful feeling of supporting *the* most progressive/transgressive RPG intellectual on the market today.<br /><br />Pony up the cash. The part of the posts hidden behind the paywall contain the real lessons.<br />Justin Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08175829810947452281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-87882313992472184742018-06-01T06:14:06.590-06:002018-06-01T06:14:06.590-06:00I like how you’ve changed the carrot-stick to a wa...I like how you’ve changed the carrot-stick to a watch-tiger. As much as the emphasis of the post touches on how much introducing a tiger could contribute to railroading, I feel the tiger provides you with two things that don’t make it a clear cut example of railroading.<br /><br />First, the tiger can be reasonably understood to have an intelligence of its own distinct from the DM (over a stick); if the tiger is introduced as a rational further element of the environment, your culpability is perhaps diminished (even though you’re playing the tiger) and it offers a danger that does not necessarily have only one way of being defeated (i.e. running to the watch).<br /><br />The second thing is that danger is so critical because of the emotional weight it has. If our goal is to affect the players’ emotions, then stress should rightly be a presence in each decision, since it can force a decision and push the players to engage. I mean, you can’t make every decision stressful but I think these two situations both had stressors affecting the players in other ways. <br />Concern over the bride-to-be, in the first case, seems to have weakened the players’ willingness to take a new risk. In the second case, the problem seems quite different, like the players didn’t feel they saw the reward as meaningful enough given the risk; I’m not sure forcing them to engage would have necessarily worked in that case (perhaps if beforehand they had found some goblinlike creatures feasting on luxurious stolen bighorn sheep?)<br /><br />As for the missing blog posts, an easy way to see if the deletions are intentional (which would be strange) is to check for the character blogs or Blogger profiles in Blogger. If all posts are missing the accounts probably were deactivated somehow; you can check the time between the last post made by the account and the likely date of deactivation and see if you get a round number. A Google employee claims they don’t remove Blogger accounts due to inactivity back in 2013, but it’s possible things could have changed since then with the GDPR.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496502173819113887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-55549824821113035292018-05-31T15:05:16.353-06:002018-05-31T15:05:16.353-06:00I’m sorry that it happened, but have nothing to do...I’m sorry that it happened, but have nothing to do with it as far as I’m aware. If you can figure out anyway I can help please let me know.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701068052580688441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-74890815605365180282018-05-31T14:50:07.393-06:002018-05-31T14:50:07.393-06:00Every post. And they were all there on May 17th. ...Every post. And they were all there on May 17th. Sophia is still present.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-2634616034840421232018-05-31T14:03:54.570-06:002018-05-31T14:03:54.570-06:00Is this a problem with the entire campaign or olde...Is this a problem with the entire campaign or older posts only? I lost access to the original Andrej account and had to make a new one when we resumed play some years ago, you may recall. Could it be that Blogger deleted the old accounts (original Andrej, Delfig, etc..) after years of inactivity? I can still access my 2nd, more recent Andrej blog, but wouldn't know where to start with the old one:<br /><br />http://andrejthecleric.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br /><br /> Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701068052580688441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-6034084025625781742018-05-31T13:50:01.568-06:002018-05-31T13:50:01.568-06:00Every Andrej comment now lists as "Anonymous&...Every Andrej comment now lists as "Anonymous" throughout the blog, as does every Delfig, Melchior and Avel comment. Lukas and Ahmet are untouched. I am making the most obvious connection: that players are removing their content.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-5390028290431702932018-05-31T13:42:17.290-06:002018-05-31T13:42:17.290-06:00Alexis, Andrej here. I have done no such thing fo...Alexis, Andrej here. I have done no such thing for no reason that you assume above and have no idea what you're talking about. Consider any help that I can provide in fixing the situation offered to you. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701068052580688441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-3762524425996806302018-05-31T07:24:25.437-06:002018-05-31T07:24:25.437-06:00This is a really good post, and one that addresses...This is a really good post, and one that addresses very well an issue that I've been wrestling with myself in my home campaign. I didn't know that it was this issue until I read the post, but it's certainly helped me reframe my perspective on the situation. I'm also examining a bit closer my own tendencies as a player, and considering what kind of player I am. Well done, very much worth a read.Lothar Svenssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03195099273437009840noreply@blogger.com