[ChairmanHal]

Twenty Rules Regarding Any RPG

1. If it isn't fun any more, don't play it.
2. You fight the gamemaster/dungeon master, you lose.
3. No one likes a munchkin, but they will use the exploits they find anyway.
4. No one likes a rules lawyer. They friggen hate anyone that trys to disguise munckinism as rules lawyering.
5. The game was always better when you started playing, specifically when you first realized you had a grasp of the basic rules.
6. Hate the character, not the player or the game.
7. If you want continuous action without any build up of anticipation or plot, go play Pac-Man or MarioKart.
8. If you hate your alliance/gaming group, find one that you do like, don't stick around to screw people first.
9. As a rule, mixing RL romance and your gaming results in a train wreck...yes there are exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule and result in you being confronted with rule #1, #6 and/or #8.
10. There is dedicated and then there is addicted--if you don't know the difference, you probably have a problem.
11. Gathering intelligence to "win" a RPG battle/war does not include having an alliance/gaming group member with "certain skills" dive into another player's personal life for dirt.
12. Sexual harassment is not ok, nor ever excusable as being "in character". Also see Rule #9.
13. It's perfectly acceptable to roleplay a walking, talking "richard" with ears--don't be pissed off when people decide to roleplay your destroyer.
14. Not everyone will take the game will an equal level of seriousness or levity...deal with it.
15. When someone yells 'stop' OOC, we stop.
16. Beer and RPGs almost never mix--unless they result in something so hilarious it is remembered through the ages.
17. If you are paying RL money for gaming materials/bonuses in game you help to keep the game alive. That is not however your ticket to insist on special treatment/access as a "paying customer".
18. If the RPG developer isn't working on developing a RPG regularly, that game is dead.
19. If a RPG isn't being marketed, it's dead or soon will be...note: all players are members of the marketing team. If the game fails, it is partially because you didn't do your job.
20. Learn something about people or about yourself when you play a RPG. You chose to play a RPG not because you have lightning reflexes or because you can memorize some long string of joystick movements. You did it because your brain requires something more stimulating than a graphics card can provide.

Assuming you made it to the bottom of this list, you probably have your own additions to it. Go for it. I look forward to your entries.

[Quiziotle]

Thanks for this!

[thaone]

WOW, this is one of the first topics in which all the rules apply to CN.

Great job Hal.

[Locke]

Heh, nice list. I'm always terrible at making little truisms for lists, but I dunno, I'll see what I can do.

[lebubu]

21. Don't cry in front of your laptop over it

*edited for clarity

This post has been edited by lebubu: 23 October 2009 - 05:57 PM

[Uralica]

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10. There is dedicated and then there is addicted--if you don't know the difference, you probably have a problem.

^partly why I quit the first time.

[touche]

22. Oblivion gets boring after a week or two

[FinsterBaby]

23. Life isn't fair. Neither are RPGs. Get over it.

[D34th]

Yeah very good list, and it's really works to any RPG, I know because I already had played so many of them(Vampire the mask, GURPS, D&D, Ultima Online, Linage 2...).

I can add a good rule I think:

* RPGs doesn't have an end so remember that you play to have fun not to win or lose.

[Gopherbashi]

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9. As a rule, mixing RL romance and your gaming results in a train wreck...yes there are exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule and result in you being confronted with rule #1, #6 and/or #8.

FinsterBaby, on Oct 22 2009, 05:38 PM, said:

23. Life isn't fair. Neither are RPGs. Get over it.

In reviewing these rules - Finster, I don't think it can work out between us.

This post has been edited by Gopherbashi: 22 October 2009 - 03:39 PM

[Syrik]

/me goes to play MarioKart.

[Big Z]

24. Ask yourself "What would babyjesus do in my situation?" Then do that action.

[Tromp]

25 Realizing that the moment a thread such as this is necessary, we've already crossed a line.

[Bill Wallace]

That's pretty good Hal. Nice job. Except I do like my beer. B)

[Quinoa Rex]

26. If every rule in this list isn't intuitive, stop playing until they are.

This post has been edited by Quinoa Rex: 22 October 2009 - 04:20 PM

[WildThing]

If you have to use Skype to avoid spies logdumping, it's too late.

[Seerow]

These rules dont seem to apply to every RPG, but they are good general rules that will apply to most.

[atrophis]

Rule 16 fails. Beer always mixes with everything.

[Katsumi]

atrophis, on Oct 22 2009, 11:18 PM, said:

Rule 16 fails. Beer always mixes with everything.

Other alcoholic beverages do too.

[DragonsPhyre]

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Yes, this is an RPG

No, it isn't. At best, it's tolerant of those that would like to RP here.