Words of Power were interesting enough for me to look at.
And complicated enough to stop me from continueing reading them.
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What kind of gamer are you to give up because the rules get complicated?
That's what makes us gamers, because we're capable of reading the rules and figuring them out in the first place!
You can't just give up on something like that, what's the point of life if you just give up all the time?!
Be empowered with energy to learn the challenging, to try the difficult, to experience that which took effort to achieve! YOU CAN DO IT!
What kind of gamer are you to give up because the rules get complicated?
That's what makes us gamers, because we're capable of reading the rules and figuring them out in the first place!
You can't just give up on something like that, what's the point of life if you just give up all the time?!
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Do YOU have a good answer for "what is the meaning of life?" Because I know a ton of people who are curious about the answer there.
And no, what makes us gamers is that we game. No more, no less. Some gamers have a propensity to better read rules, etc, but diversity is a good thing.
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Dude, that one is easy. It's 42. You can check with the Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine if you have to.
Your statement is ridiculous I say! I come speaking a message of passion and suggesting we look energetically to our hobby and you lay down on the ground and decry to the universe, "Meh." Inconceivable! You wouldn't be here if that's how you truly were I say, you wouldn't have had the energy to pick up the book and read it in the first place. None of us would be here if the gamers of the past weren't able to pick up the rules by reading them, helping to change them and then teaching them to others.
None of us would be here if the gamers of the past weren't able to pick up the rules by reading them, helping to change them and then teaching them to others.
This is exactly what words of power needs. Someone to comprehend and then rewrite the rules.
42 is not the meaning of life, it's the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. A very important distinction, for Earth was made to find out exactly what that question is.
In essence our purpose is to crunch numbers and solve the problems of being greater than ourselves. Feel free to find meaning from that as you please.
Further more, I find the need to roll in the dirt of complexity to be ridiculous. There are times when all I need is "left", "right", "run", "jump" and "get to the goal-poast before time runs out". Looking no furhter, and no deeper than that.
And then there are times when I want Words of Power.
I'm not actually thoroughly convinced anyone has ever read the rulebooks of a d20 system game. I think Gygax and Arneson pitched AD&D to TSR, who responded with "whuhh?" This prompted them to explain their game to the company, who said "cool!"
And then they each told two people...
And then they each told two people...
etc.
Note: The above is tongue in cheek, and not a serious belief I hold, so there is no need to raeg or disprove me with personal testimony