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Totally Guy
03-23-2010, 04:20 AM
Is anyone else familiar with this site? Various media are described, broken up into component parts and indexed.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotableTabletopGames

Burning Wheel is listed as a notable game but nobody has described it yet. Should we perhaps collaborate on some things to write about it.

We could also seek out other tropes that are embraced by the system. "Off the Rails (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OffTheRails)" - by design. For example.

zabieru
03-23-2010, 01:45 PM
TVTropes is useful and entertaining when it's breaking down tropes (thus the name) and giving a few useful examples of that trope. It's crufty and stupid when it's attempting to index EVERY example of that trope, or when people get in stupid arguments about whether a trope is subverted or played straight in their favorite Gameboy game.

Your mileage may vary, but I'm certainly not going to start off with the intent of adding more example-cruft where none is needed.

Hired Sword
03-24-2010, 01:45 AM
A warning to those who have never been to that site: It is an incredible timesink. To the point where some forums forbid linking to it.
The experience can be best described by this cartoon. (http://xkcd.com/609/)

Dwight
03-24-2010, 08:33 AM
A warning to those who have never been to that site: It is an incredible timesink. To thew point where some forums forbid linking to it.
The experience can be best described by this cartoon. (http://xkcd.com/609/)

I find that xkcd is like that too except it's a much more limited amount of material. I mean seriously. (http://xkcd.com/712/)