Saturday, June 25, 2005

Sundries

Adam Dray has provided a great service to all your RPG geeks who use LiveJournal -- a a listing of RPG related LJ feeds.

If you are actually thinking of playing with those skeletal Bliss Stage rules I sent out a bit ago, I have a group and character creation document that you might be interested in.

I want to write an article that is titled If I have gone further, it is because I have walked upon the corpses of those that have gone before and failed but the problem is that the title pretty much says it all.

6 Comments:

Blogger Brand Robins said...

I suppose the corpses are the other side of the shoulders of giants line I'm always throwing out.

2:44 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could be that the giants are the corpses, and you've been standing on dead giants' shoulders all this time.

What I want to know is, what are the corpses covering that you couldn't otherwise walk upon?

And it's only a half joking question. The other half is wondering if there's something worthwhile to be gleaned from this metaphor. Maybe you should go ahead and write the article.

11:22 AM  
Blogger Joshua A.C. Newman said...

OH. I thought you meant it literally.

Cuz, gross.

3:15 AM  
Blogger WiredNavi said...

That should be the title of your next RPG.

3:43 AM  
Blogger Ben said...

Ethan -- mostly, it's just a pithy line. The point is that I learn as much (or more) from watching the failures of others as I do from watching the successes of others.

Joshua -- :-P

Dave -- It's pretty close to the theme of my present RPG(s). See my vidjagame notes in the LJ.

yrs--
--Ben

4:52 PM  
Blogger WiredNavi said...

I would have phrased the theme of your current RPGs more like 'When I fail at last it is because I am no longer able to clamber over the piled corpses of my predecessors.' ;-)

7:23 AM  

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