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shadowsword87 posted...

Don't worry, I am now applying Death of the Author to basically every time you talk about a game you played/ran online or not, and headconnoning it so it was all just you playing the game with yourself.

1) That's neither what Death of the Author means nor how it works.

2) You're free to believe that, in spite of it not being true.

Though for reference you won't care about, just doing a rough count in my head I'd say I've probably RPed with about two dozen different people (in different groups over the years) in person alone, another dozen or so if you include people I only gamed with for a single session or two, and probably about a hundred more once you start factoring in people I've played with online more than just completely casually.

But really, all you're basically doing is just the equivalent of when I occasionally suggested that no one in the Geek topic (or on PotD in general) actually exists at all, and that you're all just the voices in my head and I'm currently just typing all of your replies in Notepad and then forgetting that I wrote them before I answer back. Because there's literally no real proof that any of you exist at all.



shadowsword87 posted...

Until you can convince me in a non-PotD DnD game.

This would pretty much be impossible, since it means you would have to fly to New Jersey to either run or play in a D&D game. And simultaneously either bring a few extra players with you or recruit some here, because very few of the people I've played with over the years still play, and only TWO of them ever played D&D at all (and one of them played AD&D while the other played Basic D&D, which I'm assuming aren't editions you'd want to play in).

(I've actually got three cousins who currently play 5e and my nephew has mentioned kind of wanting to learn/play, but they're teenagers and I feel creepyweird about playing with them, so I haven't dropped in on any of their games. You could probably bribe them into inviting us in, though.)

For all the experience I've had with RP over the years, D&D was always the gaping hole in that particular curriculum vitae. No matter how many people consider it THE iconic game of the medium, it never meant anything to me for years. My first realistic contact with it wasn't until Baldur's Gate (apart from an attempt by someone I used to RP with to run an AD&D game in high school that went nowhere), and Nudo's game was basically the first, last, and only time I ever really played it.

But that means that I don't really know anyone else who played it, either.

Like I've said before, Marvel Superheroes RPG was my original system, WW Storyteller was my core system during most of my hardcore gaming years, and Amber DRPG became my love later on (and is still the system I'm most likely to play in on the rare occasion I tabletop these days). In between I've played L5R and 7th Sea, CoC and TimeLords, Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, Lone Wolf, and a handful of other systems for shorter campaigns or one-offs. And I've talked to people who ran other systems I've never played, so I'm at least passingly familiar with stuff I've never gamed in.

But D&D? Almost never.

Though I pretty much live it vicariously for like 7 hours a week via Crit Role and Acq Inc at this point.


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