Re: Simulationist versus Dramatist

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:07:40 +1300, Rupert Boleyn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:59:01 GMT, Wayne Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved
>upon a tablet of ether:
>
>> Frankly, there were a lot of Dramatists during that period who
>> considered Gamists a plague to be chased out of the hobby.  Still are
>> quite a few, but I think they've been slowly losing the moral high
>> ground they seemed to have a few years ago.
>
>The annoying thing was that, IME, the end result when you listened to
>their war stories was little different from many of our games, though
>they probably didn't have as many dead PCs along the way.

Well, I suspect that many of them, if they'd been capable of looking
at themselves honestly, were more Gamist than they'd like to admit.