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Highly Wierd Comparisons

Steve Jones's commented on my previous posting, comparing Ken Hite's subjective film review with the factually inaccurate 'OK at normal viewing distances' nonsense you get in product reviews in model railway magazines.

He got me thinking, and my mind started making connections between apparently unconnected things, especially the comparisons between my two hobbies, RPGs and model railways. Is the misshapen Farish class 56 equivalent to the broken dice mechanic of Deadlands. Do E Gary Gygax and Cyril Freezer occupy equivalent positions in the two respective hobbies, very influential in the founding years, but now rather stuck in the past? How much does the clunky class-and-level mechanics of D&D parallel the steamroller wheels and tension lock couplings of ready-to-run OO gauge?

Or am I talking complete rubbish?

Posted by TimHall at May 26, 2005 08:13 PM | TrackBack
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