I am too fond of these things.

[benlehman]

Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	5.66% Slew entire Asgardian Pantheon with one hand while blindfolded	53.5%
Sensitive Roleplaying	1.27% There is no player. There is only.... Zuul.	54.4%
GM Experience	5.8% Worldbuilder, storyteller... Master.	69.4%
Systems Knowledge	49.01% Guardian of the out-of-print game	90.3%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	18.39% Gaming is my life	63%
You are 17.98% pure Average Score: 68.7%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up!

"Systems Knowledge" is rigged. Further, I have intimate knowledge of more than 20 systems *not on the list*

*grumble*

Comments

[evilmagnus]

Systems you wrote or I've never heard of don't count. :)

Seriously, though. It's Old Skool. You're just not Old Skool enough, you whippersnapper.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Dogs in the Vineyard -- Ken Hite and Jon Tweet's best RPG for 2004. Not on the list.

MLWM -- winner of the Diana Jones Award in 2003. Jon Tweet's Best of GenCon 2003. Ken Hite's best Sui Generis RPG. Not on the list.

As examples.

yrs--
--Ben

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

FATE isn't on there either.

yrs--
--Ben

[xiombarg.livejournal.com]

Those still aren't Old Skool RPGs by any stretch of the imagination.

[evilmagnus]

Exactly.

Old Skool is the 80s.
Hard Core is pre-1984.

Example: 1st Edition Traveller. Ever had a character die in character generation before? That's Old Skool Traveller.

Owning the four Basic sets of D&D - Basic, Expert, Companion & Master. That's Old Skool.

All you johnnie-come-latelys are just messing up the roleplaying for us folks who don't hold with this 'optional variable damage' rule. 1d6 damage for all weapons was good enough for Gynax, it's good enough for us!

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Five basic sets. You forgot one.

See, I get the hard core. T&T, Boot Hill, Star Frontiers, Indiana Jones, Top Secret. It's actually the vast number of shitty early-90s RPGs that fuck me over.

yrs--
--Ben

[evilmagnus]

Five basic sets. You forgot one.

The Immortals set is apocrypha!