Comments on: Show011: Social Contract http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/ A punk perspective on tabletop RPG's, their theory, and design. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: clyde http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-865 clyde Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:24:26 +0000 http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-865 Hey Jeremy, Glad it was helpful. I think a lot of people don't give Social Contract much consideration and assume everyone wants what they want. I really think this ambiguity is a good part of what leads to problems folks have. Hey Jeremy,

Glad it was helpful. I think a lot of people don’t give Social Contract much consideration and assume everyone wants what they want. I really think this ambiguity is a good part of what leads to problems folks have.

]]> By: Jeremy Mac Donald http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-859 Jeremy Mac Donald Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:39:50 +0000 http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-859 I really enjoyed this episode. I've been playing for a great many years but had never really considered social contracts. Nor has any group I have been a part of ever really descussed them beforehand. Definitly food for thought and thats why I listen to your podcast. I really enjoyed this episode. I’ve been playing for a great many years but had never really considered social contracts. Nor has any group I have been a part of ever really descussed them beforehand. Definitly food for thought and thats why I listen to your podcast.

]]> By: chad http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-89 chad Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:35:57 +0000 http://theoryfromthecloset.com/2007/07/04/show011-social-contract/#comment-89 If I had established a "Guy's Night Out" with some close friends, where we drank and shot pool and smoked cigs and were fucking macho and retarded, I would be totally pissed if someone started bringing their girlfriend along. Clearly, game night (or more specifically, Rifts Night @ Chad's... shudder...) is loaded with many of those same understood and unspoken rules. Granted, an Open game night, like what Tim does on Fridays, works best as an open to the public thing, working almost as a forum, with new games, new faces, new ideas. But clearly, that's what Social Contract is about... defining explicitly when it's BYOB-Tell-Your-Friends, and when to leave the fucking girlfriend home. :) If I had established a “Guy’s Night Out” with some close friends, where we drank and shot pool and smoked cigs and were fucking macho and retarded, I would be totally pissed if someone started bringing their girlfriend along. Clearly, game night (or more specifically, Rifts Night @ Chad’s… shudder…) is loaded with many of those same understood and unspoken rules.

Granted, an Open game night, like what Tim does on Fridays, works best as an open to the public thing, working almost as a forum, with new games, new faces, new ideas. But clearly, that’s what Social Contract is about… defining explicitly when it’s BYOB-Tell-Your-Friends, and when to leave the fucking girlfriend home. :)

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