Comments on: Say Things Badly

By: Daniel M. Perez

Daniel M. Perez — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:42:11 +0000

You sure will.
I’ve one spot open, if you want it. Sat night, 9-Midnight.

You know, in your copious time at Gen Con. :-)

By: Ryan Macklin

Ryan Macklin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:15:45 +0000

Daniel,

Rock on! I look forward to hearing about it.

- Ryan

By: Ryan Macklin

Ryan Macklin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:15:10 +0000

Bruce,

Yes, definitely! Mutualism in this regard is pretty important.

- Ryan

By: Ryan Macklin

Ryan Macklin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:14:17 +0000

Doug,

Yeah, I’ve been there as well. For those moments when I feel like I’ll be admitting myself as a failure if someone sees an early draft, I have another saying: “Failure is fucking metal.”

- Ryan

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:29 +0000

Where I most connect with this is when I have a rough draft of something and I’m terrified to show it to anyone because I figure they’ll read it, realize that deep down I’m just a stupid douchebag with nothing important to say – because look at this crap I just wrote! What crappy crap. The problem is that creating in a vacuum doesn’t work very well for me. So the desire to make something awesome is in direct contention with the desire to appear to be awesome – at least in my case.

By: Daniel M. Perez

Daniel M. Perez — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:48:23 +0000

I intend to rely on this very principle when I run my first uber-rough draft playtest of my vampire game-in-progress, When The Fall…, at Gen Con. Cause it’s gonna be me fumbling and being nervous and mangling the shit out of this thing I have inside me that is aching to come out, and I hope and pray (and I’m sure this will be the case) that my players will understand the Alien-birth-scene allegory of what I’m doing and help me make it all better.

Thanks for that.

By: Ryan Macklin

Ryan Macklin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:32:18 +0000

“Fuck off, cockbite” is my gift to the world. Thus, CC-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. ;)

- Ryan

By: Tom C.

Tom C. — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:23:27 +0000

Have you trademarked “Fuck off, cockbite”?

Because if you haven’t, you should.

An excellent post, by the way — forwarding it around.

By: Bruce Baugh

Bruce Baugh — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:09:01 +0000

This is me agreeing very much indeed, early and often.

And one of the best ways we can nurture it is to show some mutual respect and courtesy for each otheres’ fumbling around. Going gently at the start very often pays off.