Rules and the Cam

Rules threads starting up, thought I'd throw in my tuppence rather than a few pages of my usual jibberish

All this comes with a 'IMHO' disclaimer, so there.

Too much rules whining is not constructive to gameplay, we're here essentially to roleplay, not rulesplay; yes the rules are the structure by which the game is built on, but I've played many games where I haven't made a single damn challenge and those games have been some of the best I've played.

For me the core of this game is the social element; if I wanted combat systems I'd rubber sword LRP instead, when you get the speed and fun of belting each other with giant rubber whatevers - and I do. But I acknowledge that for some people the combat stuff is fun too, not everyone plays the game for the same reasons.

Yes rules can make the game a pain at time, but sometimes it seems that if it's not one rule someone is whining about it's another - now to say I agree or disagree with the rules entirely, I freely acknowledge that to me the rules could have changes that I believe would be better, hell in my Rolemaster (aka Robmaster) campaign I have an entire A4 folder stacked full of updates and rules mods for the campaign - but thats my game, not an international one.

This isn't to say again, that some rules (I believe) couldn't be changed for the better, but rather to say I just get hacked off by the constant stream of complains, moans and whining about rules almost 24/7 from people, yes the points may be relevant but I just get so damn tired of all the moaning about rules it makes me want to go back to freeform sometimes and stuff rules entirely.

Ok, so I repeated myself here a bit, but I'm tired, so there, nerr.

Work

Busy again today, which is good, keeps my brain busy, keeps me from thinking; well except about work, which isn't always a good thing, wooooah nellie, just had to say that was going to include it later but decided to put it there instead, which I can do, so there, nerr, with a cherry on top, an ice cream, bleh, don't like cherries, but I do like ice-cream; had some vanilla fudge haagen dasz last night, highly recommended, tasty, ice-creamy, yers. Hmmm, brain slowly slowing down now, gibberish beginning to tail off, need to insert more, commas, increasing, by, the, second, must, not, use, fullstops, hmmm, erm, erm, erm, spllen wibble and all that.
Back to work I think.

A path, a path

The path of Robin

Nickname: Socio-Emotives
Basic Beliefs: Generate good feeling, suppress bad feelings, make people happy, be happy.

Hierarchy of Sins

10. Being depressed
9. Being miserly
8. Dumping a problem on someone else
7. Failure to assist a friend
6. Generating bad karma
5. Actively opposing good karma
4. Failure to respect my parents
3. Betraying a friend or a secret from them
2. GBH without due justification
1. MDK, Rape

HP again

Well finished the first book at lunchtime, nae bad, a little cheesy here and there, some good ideas, a twist that didn't really give you many direct clues in the book itself (miss marple strikes again) and an end that felt rushed. 7/10.
On the plus side it does mean I'm reading once again after a stint far too long away from it, need to get myself some more books, and no, I don't mean the rest of the HP series...

Found it!

I used to know this proof, but forgot it (as I do most things) but due to the wonders of the internet, I've found it again.


step 1: a = b

step 2: a² = ab [ after you multiply both sides by a ]

step 3: a² - b² = a² - b² [ subtract b² from both sides ]

step 4: (a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b) [ factor both sides ]

step 5: (a + b) = 1b [ after you divide both sides by (a - b) ]

step 6: 2b = 1b [ since a = b, (a + b) = 2b ]

step 7: 2 = 1 [ after you divide both sides by b ]

For a pint, anyone know which step is wrong, and why?

(Now corrected so that the squares look correct!)