{"id":286,"date":"2012-01-12T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/reverb-gamers-2012-121\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T20:35:49","slug":"reverb-gamers-2012-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/reverb-gamers-2012-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverb Gamers 2012, #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><b><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">REVERB GAMERS 2012, #12: Do prefer collaborative or competitive games? What do you think that says about you? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.atlas-games.com<\/a>) <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">I play all kinds of games, but since my main gaming interest is role-playing, I&#8217;m firmly in the &#8220;collaborative&#8221; camp*. Even outside of role-playing, I usually prefer games that emphasize having fun over winning. My favorite non-RPG of the moment is<a href=\"http:\/\/cardsagainsthumanity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Cards Against Humanity<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve bothered to count and see who won a game yet. I enjoy playing a competitive game every now and then, but collaborative games are generally more my style. I could claim that my preference for collaborative games makes me a wonderful person who values everyone&#8217;s input and puts the enjoyment of the whole group above personal ego or bragging rights, but that would be a terrible, terrible lie. The reality is that I just don&#8217;t have much tolerance for the drama and nonsense that too much competition usually leads to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\">*And as far as I&#8217;m concerned, competition between the players and GM in an RPG is the dumbest thing ever, given that the GM can always &#8220;win&#8221; by having your character&#8217;s appendix burst or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiStreamMessage\" data-ft=\"{\"><span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVERB GAMERS 2012, #12: Do prefer collaborative or competitive games? What do you think that says about you? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at www.atlas-games.com) I play all kinds of games, but since my main gaming interest is role-playing, I&#8217;m firmly in the &#8220;collaborative&#8221; camp*. Even outside of role-playing, I usually prefer games that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2009],"tags":[1116,3454],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prompts-and-challenges","tag-reverb-gamers","tag-cards-against-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}