Where Worlds Collide

Bankuei gives us a scary diagram that’s supposed to represent dysfunctional RPG play. While I’ve played and even GMed the odd one-shot that hasn’t quite come together, I’ve never encountered anything quite as as horrid as the things he seems to be describing here. I guess I’ve never been in any RPG group that’s imploded messily due to a clash of personalities or fundamental disagreement on direction. Model railway clubs, yes. Gaming groups, no. Anyone RPGed with an egotisic Wing Commander?

By comparison, previous posts gave us equivalent diagrams for “incoherent” and awesome high Forgeosity games. And he does need to make a contribution to the charity of his choice for the use of the word “Awesomeosity”.

Update: Amadán has some further thoughts on the subject

The long-awaited web-based front-end for The Phoenyx is now in Beta. The existing email system will remain unchanged, but the not only will the archives be a lot more user-friendly, but you’ll be able to post messages threough the web front-end as well. Hopefully this will be good news for the sorts of people that prefer web forums to mailing lists.

As I said, it’s still in beta format at the moment, so there are likely to be a few bugs, especially formatting glitches.