Comments on: Player Skills http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/ Games for the Prettiest One Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:27:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: What do You Expect from Your Players? - Treasure Tables http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-4611 What do You Expect from Your Players? - Treasure Tables Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:53:19 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-4611 [...] Over on his always-engaging blog Ludanta Retero, Joshua BishopRoby has posted a list of 64 player skills — things that players are expected to be able to do at the gaming table. [...] [...] Over on his always-engaging blog Ludanta Retero, Joshua BishopRoby has posted a list of 64 player skills — things that players are expected to be able to do at the gaming table. [...]

]]> By: Joshua BishopRoby http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-3804 Joshua BishopRoby Mon, 15 May 2006 06:24:07 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-3804 I logged in to my server stats page and a full third of the referrals this weekend were from Treasure Tables. Looks like Martin's been linking to me, again. I'm glad you found some use in the list -- I'm presently trying to puzzle out what it's good for, myself. I logged in to my server stats page and a full third of the referrals this weekend were from Treasure Tables. Looks like Martin’s been linking to me, again.

I’m glad you found some use in the list — I’m presently trying to puzzle out what it’s good for, myself.

]]> By: Player Skills: Different Perspectives - Treasure Tables http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-3781 Player Skills: Different Perspectives - Treasure Tables Sat, 13 May 2006 15:24:20 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-3781 [...] In fact, I see three angles on this issue (so far): Joshua’s original list, which is heavy on RPG theory; Don’s rant, which puts fun over theory; and yesterday’s TT post on player skills, which is somewhere in the middle. That’s fertile ground for discussion! [...] [...] In fact, I see three angles on this issue (so far): Joshua’s original list, which is heavy on RPG theory; Don’s rant, which puts fun over theory; and yesterday’s TT post on player skills, which is somewhere in the middle. That’s fertile ground for discussion! [...]

]]> By: Martin Ralya http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-3777 Martin Ralya Fri, 12 May 2006 22:58:52 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-3777 I don't think I've ever commented here before, Joshua, despite loving your blog and linking to you several times. So, long time listener, first time caller. ;) Anyhoo, I'm not sure why the trackbacks didn't come through, but your post has prompted some interesting discussion on my blog, Treasure Tables, and my friend Don Mappin's blog, Abulia Savant. TT: http://www.treasuretables.org/2006/05/what-do-you-expect-from-your-players AS: http://www.donmappin.com/?p=175 I'll be posting again about it tomorrow, too -- this is a great list, and it makes my mind go in all sorts of directions. ;) I don’t think I’ve ever commented here before, Joshua, despite loving your blog and linking to you several times. So, long time listener, first time caller. ;)

Anyhoo, I’m not sure why the trackbacks didn’t come through, but your post has prompted some interesting discussion on my blog, Treasure Tables, and my friend Don Mappin’s blog, Abulia Savant.

TT: http://www.treasuretables.org/2006/05/what-do-you-expect-from-your-players
AS: http://www.donmappin.com/?p=175

I’ll be posting again about it tomorrow, too — this is a great list, and it makes my mind go in all sorts of directions. ;)

]]> By: Joshua BishopRoby http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-3769 Joshua BishopRoby Thu, 11 May 2006 22:28:03 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-3769 I suppose it could be useful as a diagnostic, although I'd think you'd have to simplify it down a bit -- having everybody write 64 paragraphs and then collating them all seems like a huge headache. An interesting proposition, though: instead of the report card assessment, a sort of group interpretation and preference. Hm. I have no idea what I've done to screw up my feeds. One of these days, when I have a free weekend (hah!) I'll backup my stylesheets and re-install to see if that beats them into submission. I suppose it could be useful as a diagnostic, although I’d think you’d have to simplify it down a bit — having everybody write 64 paragraphs and then collating them all seems like a huge headache. An interesting proposition, though: instead of the report card assessment, a sort of group interpretation and preference. Hm.

I have no idea what I’ve done to screw up my feeds. One of these days, when I have a free weekend (hah!) I’ll backup my stylesheets and re-install to see if that beats them into submission.

]]> By: Thomas Robertson http://kallistipress.com/2006-05-11/player-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-3768 Thomas Robertson Thu, 11 May 2006 21:33:53 +0000 http://kallistipress.com/blog/2006-05-11/player-skills/#comment-3768 Joshua, I dropped my comments into your follow-up thread on SG, but expanded here: I would find a group of between three and five people who play significantly differently, then I would get each of them to write a short piece on each skill (even if they don't think that the skill is useful, they can just say that). I bet <i>that</i> would be a pretty dang compilation to read. In other news: I don't know if you knew this, but your comments feed acts all funky for me. As far as I can tell, it only gets updated when the primary feed gets updated. This has two detrimental effects: 1) it means that it's not as easy as it could be to follow discussion on the blog and 2) since the feed is only 10 comments long, some people who read just through an aggregator are going to miss stuff if there's enough discussion between main posts. I was going to email you, but I couldn't find an email address for you anywhere... Thomas Joshua,

I dropped my comments into your follow-up thread on SG, but expanded here: I would find a group of between three and five people who play significantly differently, then I would get each of them to write a short piece on each skill (even if they don’t think that the skill is useful, they can just say that). I bet that would be a pretty dang compilation to read.

In other news: I don’t know if you knew this, but your comments feed acts all funky for me. As far as I can tell, it only gets updated when the primary feed gets updated. This has two detrimental effects: 1) it means that it’s not as easy as it could be to follow discussion on the blog and 2) since the feed is only 10 comments long, some people who read just through an aggregator are going to miss stuff if there’s enough discussion between main posts. I was going to email you, but I couldn’t find an email address for you anywhere…

Thomas

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