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Date Posted: 10:26:02 June 08 2003, Sunday
Author: Maryna
Subject: Re: Albert, you're a jerk
In reply to: Factitious 's message, "Re: Albert, you're a jerk" on 07:02:45 June 08 2003, Sunday

>>Maryna, you don't seem to realize the history that
>>exists regarding Ben and RPGs. The best one would have
>>to be the six foot tall gnome with the pet boar. He
>>was allowed to teach it one command. He chose "roll
>>over". Not maul, not attack, not even gore or gouge.
>>Roll over.
>
>That's because my character was not unrealistically
>sadistic. If you had a pet, would the first trick you
>caught it be goring? Do you sit by puppies shouting,
>"Gouge, Freki, gouge!"? I think not. Giving Freki
>attack-related tricks would have been useful for
>combat, true, but my character had no reason to
>expect, when training his boar, that he would soon be
>in any such combat. I consider it important not to
>use out-of-character information.

Uhh, whatever happened to toilet training? So you've got a dog who defecates on the floor and rolls around in it. Brilliant.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Albert is not a jerk -- Albert, 15:39:14 June 08 2003, Sunday

>Uhh, whatever happened to toilet training? So you've
>got a dog who defecates on the floor and rolls around
>in it. Brilliant.

A boar, Maryna. A boar.


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