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jon zingale

Re: quickening

Nick,

The constraints of D&D are in part set by what is interesting for the
development of collaborative storytelling. It is crucial to recognize
that while a game, it is not an adversarial game (except perhaps at
the meta-level where each player is attempting to troll the DM†). Besides
this subjective constraint, there are compendia (continually under development)
which have evolved the objective constraints for the game. The word campaign
is used because the game is designed with the intention of developing a
story arc (with many sub-arcs) which can take years to tell. The campaigns
that I am a part of are predicted to be five-year campaigns. In one campaign,
our characters have a key which opens a secret door to 1970's Tokyo, there
is ample freedom to explore fantastic domains far from traditionally high-
anglo-fantasy.

you write:
"By the way, I keep hearing programs on NPR that suggest that 5G will
eliminate life as we know it."

Have you heard any of the various conspiracy theories surrounding 5G and
Covid-19? A couple of weeks ago, an elderly woman on the bike path stopped
me to express one. Curiouser and curiouser ;)

Jon

†) use google.

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thompnickson2

Re: quickening

HI Jon,

I think this message may have been misdirected toward me, tho, of course, I am happy to have it.

‘n

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 8:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] quickening

Nick,

jon zingale

Re: quickening

In reply to this post by jon zingale

Nick,

It was not a misdirection. In part, I am probing to understand

how threading works on the forum. As I understand it, if I respond

to a thread by prepending 'Re: ' to the subject line the post should

find its way to the proper container. The post I was responding to,

in part because of temporal relevance, was the one on quickening

found here: Quickening post. It seems that there is more to this

black box than I expected. I apologize for any confusion.

Jon