Re: Re: stretches and credibility checks - anyone else having difficulty?

From: L C <lightcastle_at_...>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:08:59 -0500


Irrespective of everything else I thought *this*

Ashley Munday wrote:
>
>
> It's all about being true to whatever genre you're playing in. Would
> you believe it if it happened in a work of fiction based on that
> genre? So Leonidas can use his "homoerotic spear technique" augmented
> by his "threatening loincloth" to rout a Persian Army (by overcoming
> their leader's "I look cool in bondage gear") in a game based on "The
> 300." In the context of the fiction Leonidas and his fellow cliched
> Spartans are expected to be able to do that. In a historical Greek
> campaign there's not a chance - if the phlanx broke to allow Aussie
> Gerald to start leaping about like a demented Nureyev thrusting his
> manly spear into people he wouldn't last that long.
>

deserves a round of applause. ^__^

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