(no pun intended)
Here is a link to Rob Kuntz and his 6th in the series of his columns at ENWorld.
BURMANIA! Part 2: "Keep on Going!"
Here is a link to Rob Kuntz and his 6th in the series of his columns at ENWorld.
BURMANIA! Part 2: "Keep on Going!"
As the neutral DM I was positioned to see how the opposition to Bob Burman had manifested, especially among two primary players in my campaigns and games, James Goodfellow and Eric Shook. Where does this animus derive from? It can be narrowed down as a reaction to Bob’s philosophy (or lack thereof) embodied in his endlessly repeated phrase during almost all game situations: “Keep on Going!” No matter how simple or complex the problem before him appeared to be his rubric in every case, without rhyme, reason or plan, was just to push onward.
Cleave em & Leave em, these guys were all over the place back in the day. Now I don't play in public anymore, so I really have no room to talk, but I don't see these guys around anymore. One of my players who played in this style back in the day returned to the table with a much . . . better? method of playing. It was really a shock!
ReplyDeleteI can't say that as a DM they were fun to play with. You could trust them to kill every NPC that they came in contact with. Demand on fighting everything in the dungeon, regardless of how stupid this was. Yell over everybody who was trying to roleplay. Continuously harass the other players. I remember them and as entertaining as the stories are, I'm glad that I don't have one at my table.