Trollbabe a'scrollin'

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Jesse,

Hellzapoppin', that shit ain't shit, I guess.

I'm thinking about five alpha-male tenured science faculty ripping eight years of your work apart, with your degree on the line ... After real critical review and analysis, comments based on cursory inspection just don't make me flicker an eyelid.

Or now that I think about it, after being scarred and lamed by inappropriate martial arts training ten years ago, nowadays, if a well-meaning partner thwacks me a good one harder than intended, it just doesn't bother me either.

Hmm, this reads like "poor me," which really isn't what I'm after. Let's take it to Trollbabe.

1) The game is meant for people who really want to role-play this stuff about the Trollbabes. As such, it has to be read. Compared to most game-books, it's damn short and written, I think, in a reasonably accessible style. Looking over it, and granted that it's an unusual RPG design, I don't see how someone who "glances" at it can expect their judgment to be attended to. It's like someone shouting at me in a house far across the country. To get me to listen, they have to look up my number and call it (i.e. read the book and think).

2) The comic is just itself - to be read, as is, and reacted to. Thinking of it as role-playing material is off the beam, as is thinking of it as a grand expression of my values or whatever. In fact, I'd even say that talking to me about its content or thinking of it as "something I'm saying" is a bit off too. I love people's reactions to it, which in some ways act as a Rorschach test.

Best,
Ron

[greyorm]

Jesse,

Have you (or your girlfriend) considered that the word "Stakes" does not entail the character's Stakes?  That in real life, your own Stakes can be won, lost or ignored as you -- or more appropriately, the "Trollbabe" in each of your life's personal drama -- wish?