A Study in the Logic of Gaming

[clockworkjoe]

the engaged and now married couple John and Katie

Hey, are these the couple that ran The Life and Times of Santa Claus?  Because that was pretty fucking awesome.

Yes, yes it was.

[clockworkjoe]

tonight's New World Campaign session 17 was full of player logic

-players need to build army to fight Cortez's horde of doom. One way to help? Recruit orgres to join your rag-tag resistance. The ogres want a big ass fortress built. That's fine but do you really want to give ogres a big fortress? Well, since you're building it, you can put in a secret tunnel so you can sneak in and kill the ogres if they turn on you. How to disguise the tunnel? Make it a latrine. How to keep the ogres from poking around in it? Put a Otayguh in it to eat the shit. How to get a shit eating monster? Buy one from local goblin chieftain Balgron the Fat. Then proceed to make 20 minutes of jokes about a shit eating monster salesman.

[clockworkjoe]

in a goblin new jersey accent:

you gotta dungeon full of ogres? Then you got a dungeon full of shit! Get one of my shit eating monsters to eat that shit!

Goblin shit, orc shit, even dragon shit!

I even got trained shit eating monsters! You can piss in their mouth and they won't bite your dick off!

[wrotenbe]

in a goblin new jersey accent:

you gotta dungeon full of ogres? Then you got a dungeon full of shit! Get one of my shit eating monsters to eat that shit!

Goblin shit, orc shit, even dragon shit!

I even got trained shit eating monsters! You can piss in their mouth and they won't bite your dick off!

Please..Try my product.

[clockworkjoe]

More like this guy

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[wrotenbe]

Or this?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80545204/

[Tadanori Oyama]

The New World truly is a fantastic new realm of possbility.

Remember, when dealing with Ogres: "The enemy of my enemy is too stupid to understand the whole 'balance of power' thing and will still smash me into paste with a torn up tree".

[rayner23]

Shit eating monsters . . . they're fuckin' classy!

[clockworkjoe]

Player logic in those fancy pants vidya games http://www.eldergame.com/2009/05/11/user-generated-quests-and-the-ruby-slippers/

    * Players subconsciously calculate the cost-to-benefit ratio of content when deciding if it’s fun. For most MMO players, more reward = more fun. (This is a bitch of a lesson to learn, too. “My custom-scripted quest was so incredibly cool! Why aren’t players doing the quest? Well, yes, the reward was a little sub-par, but so what? You’re telling me they aren’t playing it because of THAT? Players can’t be THAT shallow!” Ha ha, newb.)
    * Players aren’t objective reviewers. If you ask them to grade content, they will grade more rewarding content higher than other content even if it isn’t as good by other metrics (like plot, writing, annoyance factor, or originality).
    * Many players spend incredible amounts of time finding ways to min-max the system so they can get more power for less effort. That’s part of the fun for many players. So there are tens of thousands of people actively looking for mistakes, loopholes, and gray areas in your game. All the time.

[rayner23]

Let's face it, Captain Kirk is the ultimate player character. If he can't fuck it or kill it, then he is out of ideas.

[Corrosive Rabbit]

Let's face it, Captain Kirk is the ultimate player character. If he can't fuck it or kill it, then he is out of ideas.

At which point he does what gamer logic demands -- he turns to the "smart" PC and puts it on him to fix it.  Spock = Wizard.

CR

[clockworkjoe]

Let's face it, Captain Kirk is the ultimate player character. If he can't fuck it or kill it, then he is out of ideas.

At which point he does what gamer logic demands -- he turns to the "smart" PC and puts it on him to fix it.  Spock = Wizard.

CR

Spock is the ultimate rules lawyer PC - minmaxed the fuck out of chargen (half human and half vulcan? Psionics and uber martial arts with a special knock out attack? Maxed out science skills in a sci fi game?)

[Tadanori Oyama]

Dr. McCoy put all his skill points into medical but always rolls low ("He's dead Jim") so his player spends all his time drinking and arguing with the other PCs.

[Setherick]

Dr. McCoy put all his skill points into medical but always rolls low ("He's dead Jim") so his player spends all his time drinking and arguing with the other PCs.

The problem with McCoy is that he constantly has a -10 penalty because he's hungover constantly.

[Tadanori Oyama]

Scotty always wants to take twenty instead of just rolling.

Chekhov's player is the group's roleplayer and think the accent is "being in character".


I'm enjoying this excerise. Perhaps I need to make a new thread for this sort of thing.