{"id":759,"date":"2004-04-17T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2004-04-17T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:57:24","slug":"proving-ourselves-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/proving-ourselves-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Proving ourselves right"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an interesting thing, when I wrote about the game session that Jackie and Randy did with the Sorcerer<\/a> rules — Margie had read the game session and commented to me about it, but at that time Dave hadn’t read it yet.
\nWhen he did, the first I heard about it was a fairly determined “I want to play this.”
\nAs I understand it, when he mentioned this desire to Margie, she shook her head, smiled and said “you go right ahead, dear.” The setting, the disfunctional relationships, the ‘take me to the brink of destruction and see what happens’ set up… it just wasn’t her cuppa.
\nCompletely understandable. Heck, I can look at most of my games and think “this person will like this… this person won’t”, and I’m usually right — I never expected Margie to enjoy Sorcerer the way she might, for example, enjoy Trollbabe (which interestingly is written by the same guy).
\nAnyway, my point is, we both knew that about the game at first glance.
\nNow, we didn’t do the normal DnD game tonight, and I’ve been talking about trying out some other games when that game finished up, so I jumped on this opportunity to run… something. Whatever. Dave G and Robert were into the idea of the far-future, apocalyptic, sword-n-sorcery style “Clicking Sands” set up, so we decided to make up some characters and give it a try. Robert, Dave G, Jackie, and Margie, that is.
\nWell, with the session over, I can say that Margie and I had our intuitions in the right place.
\nSometimes things don’t click. Sometimes you just can’t seem to get to the point where the upsides seem like they outweight the downsides. Sometimes the mechanics or the feel or the outlook just rubs you the wrong way, and sometimes it’s all of those things put together.
\nWhen the night was over, three people enjoyed their stuff and one didn’t and I feel kind of bad about that.
\nBut, as the subject line implies — we both basically already guessed it would happen. Still, it’s too bad, since there was a lot from all four players that I really liked — I hope everyone still interested gets a chance to try that setting out again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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