Re: GM-controlled Bad Luck points

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:32:54 -0700, psychohist <psychohist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Erol K. Bayburt responds to Brian Gleichman:
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>  2. If you find it "distasteful" to even talk about
>  such systems, then WHY ARE YOUR HERE???
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>Possibly because he's trying to be helpful?  Brian knows a fair amount
>about firearms, and Peter seems interested in the information.
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>Alternatively, perhaps he wants to understand the point of view
>better, even if he finds it distasteful.  I must confess to a certain
>degree of puzzlement as to why Peter, who has generally seemed to
>dislike systems relying on gamesmaster judgement in the past, would
>suggest such a system now.

If Brian had posted only that he found the mechanic to be distasteful,
or that he found the concept behind the mechanic to be distasteful, I
wouldn't have taken exception. 

But Brian posted that he found *discussion of the mechanic* to be
distasteful. That looked to me like threadcrapping, like an attempt to
shut down the discussion by painting it as something decent-minded
people wouldn't participate in. 

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>By the way, having reread the thread in chronological order today,
>this appears to me to be the first comment addressed to the author (ad
>hominem) rather than to the subject of discussion.  I thought that
>might be of interest to posters who started discussing personalities
>later in the thread.
>
>Warren J. Dew
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Erol K. Bayburt
ErolB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]