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Re: Book/movie RPG versions
Posted By: Arthur, on host 152.163.207.213
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 11:25:07
In Reply To: Re: Book/movie RPG versions posted by OneCoolCat on Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 09:55:01:

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> >As someone who really doesn't have much experience to back myself up, I may be totally >mistaken, but isn't Dungeons & Dragons an RPG? They made that into a movie, and boy was it a >flop.
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> :Bonks self on head vigoursly: You're right, but that's more of an open-ended one, with the story being written by a gamemaster. I've never played it though. I was thinking more along the lines of doing a video game with a plot already written. Not a book or movie version of a rocket-propelled grenade either. I just realised that's what RPG means too.

Really? I thought you meant a movie version of a Report Program Generator. :)

Then again, it wouldn't exactly make for stimulating entertainment...

"Credits: String Variable 1 played by Hilary Swank. String Variable 2 played by Kevin Costner. Main Function played by Whoopi Goldberg..."

> OneCool"What I mean and what I say are two different things entirely"Cat

Of course. That's the fun of language. :)

Ar"reads too many TLA definitions from the Nerdity Test"thur