| Dave Baker |
tav_behemoth wrote:
I recently re-read Guardians of the Flame, and what interested me most from an adult perspective was how dysfunctional the roleplaying group in the beginning was - rife with dominance behavior, interpersonal conflict, and a DM who is a manipulative autocrat in-game as well as in "real" life.
I tend to think that this reflects Rosenburg's own roleplaying experiences back in the early '80s; certainly when I read it back then, it didn't seem strange to me at all.
Rosenberg actually didn't play any RPGs before he wrote the Guardians books -- he picked up the feel of it by observation. I totally agree with what you're saying about the group's interpersonal issues, tempered with the reminder that they were college students.