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Post by Dr. Realist on Sept 12, 2015 4:27:05 GMT
Could you teach people the rules? ... Teach Dragon Poker. ... pfffthahahaahahahaaaah!
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Post by Ahrotahn on Sept 12, 2015 20:23:54 GMT
How do people normally come to know the rules, if not by being taught? Is it the sort of game where you figure it out as you play? If so, I'm in.
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Post by Dr. Realist on Sept 12, 2015 21:41:04 GMT
Let me explain:
Dragon Poker uses conditional modifiers. A really extraordinary number of conditional modifiers, based on what time of day it is, what dimension you're in, which chair you're sitting in, what cards have already been played, etc, etc.
I can't teach it to you because there is no established ruleset for Relto (or even the D'ni subcluster).
(I could teach you Mao though. That might work.)
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Post by Ahrotahn on Sept 14, 2015 16:28:43 GMT
...is it named after Chairman Mao, and would it be fun for me.
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Post by Dr. Realist on Sept 15, 2015 18:09:36 GMT
...is it named after Chairman Mao, and would it be fun for me. Yes, or at least a Chairman Mao. Your history may be different from mine. It's a game about discovering the ruleset as you play. Ideally we'd want at least four people - some of the rules are indistinguishable from each other with less than that many.
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Post by Ahrotahn on Sept 15, 2015 19:08:50 GMT
And would it be fun for me?
(Sorry to harp on this point, but our Chairman Mao has a fairly negative reputation, so a game with his name and secret rules is a little ominous.)
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Post by Dr. Realist on Sept 15, 2015 23:37:25 GMT
Reputedly it got the name as a sly political dig: it's all about keeping up with hidden rules even as they change, so the creators named it after Chairman Mao as a way of saying "this is the kind of game you have to be good at to be successful under a dictator."
Theoretically, any rule whatsoever can be added to a game of Mao, but I generally prefer to play it as an intellectual game, rather than a 'let's make everyone do silly actions' game. The core of it is discovering rules by observation and experiment, and I vastly prefer rulesets that preserve that spirit to the greatest extent possible. If discovering rules by observation and experiment is fun to you, then I highly recommend Mao.
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Post by Ahrotahn on Sept 16, 2015 19:51:13 GMT
That does sound fun.
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Post by Write It Down on Nov 17, 2015 2:31:51 GMT
In the nation of Welce (where I live) is customary to wear the colors of your elemental affiliation, as well jewelry with your birth blessings, it isn’t illegal or anything if you don't, just what people would expect. I would say that wearing false birth blessings would be considered deceptive.
In most places wearing clothing is the norm, and you could get arrested if you did that in public. Thiyec (another nation) is an exception, to them going naked is a innocent fashion choice like not wearing gloves or a hat. I got the chance of seeing it first hand when friends of a friend came visiting. Great way to learn not to stare.
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Post by Ignite The Light on Nov 17, 2015 17:11:58 GMT
In the nation of Welce (where I live) is customary to wear the colors of your elemental affiliation, as well jewelry with your birth blessings, it isn’t illegal or anything if you don't, just what people would expect. I would say that wearing false birth blessings would be considered deceptive. In most places wearing clothing is the norm, and you could get arrested if you did that in public. Thiyec (another nation) is an exception, to them going naked is a innocent fashion choice like not wearing gloves or a hat. I got the chance of seeing it first hand when friends of a friend came visiting. Great way to learn not to stare. What are the colors? The Stormlord culture doesn't care that much about nudity. I think there is like a bit of pride to it if you are a skymage. Part of our powers includes some minor control over the air near us, keeping it at comfortable temperature, speed and pressure. Useful if you are going to fly really high, but also means that cold weather doesn't bother us. So being a nude skymage is a low-key way to show off how magical you are to the lowly plebeians. My parents were from the Stormlord culture, but I was raised in the USA. I don't really care about nudity, but don't love being naked. Come Forth Winter likes it more than I do.
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Post by Sapphire on Nov 30, 2015 19:01:38 GMT
You humans are obsessed with clothing and the lack thereof. This is why I had to take a three-course sequence on human fashions just to walk around without being attacked. Have you considered working to ameliorate this situation?
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Post by Come Forth Winter on Dec 1, 2015 0:28:13 GMT
You humans are obsessed with clothing and the lack thereof. This is why I had to take a three-course sequence on human fashions just to walk around without being attacked. Have you considered working to ameliorate this situation? Kinda? There are some small groups that fight this issue. However, there is a lot of cultural momentum towards clothing use and modesty. The groups are small. The entire thing is extremely slow priority. That said, I feel you. One of the worst things that came from recent fame is how fashion is important for public reasons.
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Nov 24, 2016 4:13:03 GMT
Apparently humans in at least some of your worlds lack souls. If you meet someone with a soul, you should be very careful not to touch their soul. Since you don't have souls, I'm not sure whether most people would find it rude for you to speak to their souls if you met in person, so it might be better to not address a soul unless they address you first, although mine would not mind.
It seems like a lot of conversational subtext would be harder or completely missing without souls, how do you encode most of yours? When you want to be alone are you just completely - by yourselves? I think the gnomes in my world may be telepathic with each other, and the other nonhuman people or maybe-people I've met have had ways to communicate that humans cannot. (My friend claims that he doesn't need a soul because he knows everything and is above human loneliness, but I think he's joking. Sometimes he says he doesn't need a soul because he has me.) But I'm not really sure how humans without telepathy or something would communicate a lot of things? Do you just not talk around things like my world's humans do?
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Post by Ahrotahn on Dec 6, 2016 0:35:42 GMT
We do conversational subtext through a number of channels, including posture, facial expressions, tone of voice, word choice, and other linguistic degrees of freedom such as alternate grammatical structures. In written text, punctuation and style/formatting/typesetting choices can carry connotational-type information.
What sorts of things couldn't you communicate without telepathy or souls, or is it not possible to answer that over a text forum? (I would find it difficult to describe in words the distinctive shape of a crankshaft or the procedure for tying the standard shoelace bow/knot, but these aren't really subtext.)
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Jan 5, 2017 6:27:19 GMT
(Sorry it took so long I got caught up in things)
From watching someone's soul you can usually tell what they're paying attention to and whether they like you and agree with you about something and if they have reservations about it - things like that. Amount of intimacy and trust, the dynamics between people. I suppose most of those can also be read to some extent through body language and tone, but it is harder. People with bug souls or fish souls or ███████ souls, or souls that are less expressive or better than usual at acting lying are harder to read than most people. There is a significant amount of subtext missing in written conversations (in stories they describe what characters' souls do), both from missing soul behaviors and tone of voice and facial expression.
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