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May. 6th, 2005 01:11 amAnswers to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
logicallyrogue's questions.
1) What is your favorite role-playing genre/era and why? I like a fantasy setting with as little do to with modern day life as possible, such as Exalted's setting. Contemporary settings annoy me because I have to come up with my character's job, living arrangements, and so on, and I get plenty of that in real life. I prefer my roleplaying to be escapism. Sci-fi usually has the same sort of thing. One of the things that irritates me about Shadowrun is how paranoid one has to be about leaving hints about their identity, or being picked up on surveillance devices. It felt like we spent more time figuring out how to avoid leaving behind DNA evidence than we did actually Shadowrunning, or else we had to worry about the authorities freezing our bank accounts and throwing us in prison. It was infuriating.
2) Other than your own, do you have a favorite style of art? If so, why? For subject, I prefer fantasy art, but I'm not sure about an actual style. I do tend to prefer a certain stylized approach to things rather than pure realism. As examples, I like Jason Engle and BEET, and for silly art I like Ursula Vernon.
3) I always liked Magic: The Gathering, and normally used a black/white - death/life type deck while The Doctor played christmas armaggedon - red/green - creatures and blasts. When you played, what was your themed deck?I liked critters, and so I tended to have a strong leaning towards Green. However, after a certain point my primary interest in Magic was making decks that had wacky combos, which meant any number of color combinations. The most common were Green/Black or White/Black, but I played every 2-color combo except Red/Black. There were plenty of fun things to do with Red/Black, but you were pretty much screwed if someone played a crippling enchantment on you. Some of my favorite decks featured wacky combos with cards that had been dismissed by everyone else as worthless. Many of them revolved around the idea of doing something over and over again, often an infinite number of times. I had a deck in which every card (except land) could be retreived from the graveyard by some other card, allowing an infinite loop of replayability for every creature or enchantment - though there was no infinite mana generator, so it had to be done slowly over successive turns. The most extreme example of this approach to decks was my Madness Yo-yo. It centered around things that forced players to return cards to their hands, allowing me to recast things that did annoying things when they enter play, and inconveniencing my opponent by forcing them to recast their own things. Given enough time to draw and play a few key cards, it generates infinite mana, allows me to search my deck for other key cards, and finally allows me to put all of your permanents back into your hand, then make you discard them, and then drain off all of your life. I miss Magic. = )
4) I have a bumper sticker that sums up my life: "Don't F$%^ With My Reality!". If there were a bumper sticker to describe your *inner self*, what would it say? "Think Twice, Act Once." In general, I suspect that people don't think enough before acting. They don't think about consequences, they don't consider how their actions might affect other people, or they don't consider what other people might be thinking. I think the world would be a better place if people had more empathy and consideration and didn't just act on the first impulse that comes to them.
5) If you had a choice, money not being an option, what would you do with your life? What would a typical day be like? Oh, that's easy: Army of Killer Robots. Actually, I'd like to be able to spend my time on whatever I feel like doing at the time. I have a lot of interests and hobbies, but I often feel that I should spending my time on things that are more productive. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for art, but since I'm trying to get good enough to make money at it, I often feel like I have to work on my art. It would be nice to be able to work on art only when I'm truly in the mood, and spend other time designing games, writing, or doing whatever. These days, though, I sort of feel like time spent designing games or working on my novel is in some way 'wasted,' which sucks. It would be nice to be able to be moderately successful at multiple things so I could feel that all of my creative interests are worthwhile, but that doesn't seem very likely.
logicallyrogue's questions.1) What is your favorite role-playing genre/era and why? I like a fantasy setting with as little do to with modern day life as possible, such as Exalted's setting. Contemporary settings annoy me because I have to come up with my character's job, living arrangements, and so on, and I get plenty of that in real life. I prefer my roleplaying to be escapism. Sci-fi usually has the same sort of thing. One of the things that irritates me about Shadowrun is how paranoid one has to be about leaving hints about their identity, or being picked up on surveillance devices. It felt like we spent more time figuring out how to avoid leaving behind DNA evidence than we did actually Shadowrunning, or else we had to worry about the authorities freezing our bank accounts and throwing us in prison. It was infuriating.
2) Other than your own, do you have a favorite style of art? If so, why? For subject, I prefer fantasy art, but I'm not sure about an actual style. I do tend to prefer a certain stylized approach to things rather than pure realism. As examples, I like Jason Engle and BEET, and for silly art I like Ursula Vernon.
3) I always liked Magic: The Gathering, and normally used a black/white - death/life type deck while The Doctor played christmas armaggedon - red/green - creatures and blasts. When you played, what was your themed deck?I liked critters, and so I tended to have a strong leaning towards Green. However, after a certain point my primary interest in Magic was making decks that had wacky combos, which meant any number of color combinations. The most common were Green/Black or White/Black, but I played every 2-color combo except Red/Black. There were plenty of fun things to do with Red/Black, but you were pretty much screwed if someone played a crippling enchantment on you. Some of my favorite decks featured wacky combos with cards that had been dismissed by everyone else as worthless. Many of them revolved around the idea of doing something over and over again, often an infinite number of times. I had a deck in which every card (except land) could be retreived from the graveyard by some other card, allowing an infinite loop of replayability for every creature or enchantment - though there was no infinite mana generator, so it had to be done slowly over successive turns. The most extreme example of this approach to decks was my Madness Yo-yo. It centered around things that forced players to return cards to their hands, allowing me to recast things that did annoying things when they enter play, and inconveniencing my opponent by forcing them to recast their own things. Given enough time to draw and play a few key cards, it generates infinite mana, allows me to search my deck for other key cards, and finally allows me to put all of your permanents back into your hand, then make you discard them, and then drain off all of your life. I miss Magic. = )
4) I have a bumper sticker that sums up my life: "Don't F$%^ With My Reality!". If there were a bumper sticker to describe your *inner self*, what would it say? "Think Twice, Act Once." In general, I suspect that people don't think enough before acting. They don't think about consequences, they don't consider how their actions might affect other people, or they don't consider what other people might be thinking. I think the world would be a better place if people had more empathy and consideration and didn't just act on the first impulse that comes to them.
5) If you had a choice, money not being an option, what would you do with your life? What would a typical day be like? Oh, that's easy: Army of Killer Robots. Actually, I'd like to be able to spend my time on whatever I feel like doing at the time. I have a lot of interests and hobbies, but I often feel that I should spending my time on things that are more productive. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for art, but since I'm trying to get good enough to make money at it, I often feel like I have to work on my art. It would be nice to be able to work on art only when I'm truly in the mood, and spend other time designing games, writing, or doing whatever. These days, though, I sort of feel like time spent designing games or working on my novel is in some way 'wasted,' which sucks. It would be nice to be able to be moderately successful at multiple things so I could feel that all of my creative interests are worthwhile, but that doesn't seem very likely.
