I always enjoy the deep think podcasts. They poke my small mammalian brain in the right places.

That bear with a gun tho… 😈

Great episode! The author Steven Pressfield has a few books about just this things- creativity is more work than we often appreciate, and grinding away at something mundane leads to the big break throughs.

Most things people consider to be a novelty are often just a reskin, tropes and reimagining things we have already experienced. While producing a high quality wheel is overlooked in favor of dreams about reinventing the wheel. The other day I had a friend refusing to believe the Granblue games were just reskinning Tolkien races when the names were literally just a rehash of how someone in Japan would pronounce them in English. Elven, "Eruvn" = Erune... Halfling, "Havring" = Harvin... Dwarf, "Dorafu" = Draph... :^) that's all the novelty you need. It reminds me of the trick where you just change the name of a monster in the monster manual and nothing else.

i love the intros

Human memory is inaccurate, we are all unreliable narrators to ourselves. I would argue that the consistent observation you are suggesting needs to be collected prospectively. Write a little score out of ten in the corner of every page you work on. This is how happy you were doing that work day after day.

Spiders Georg, who eats 10,000 spiders every day, is a statistical anomaly, and should not be counted.

Is IcRPG 3rd Edition a real thing for 2024 or did you record this podcast a while ago and refer to the master edition? Serious Question 🤓

@Runehammer1

21 күн бұрын

3e is master ed. 😀

@christophseel8757

21 күн бұрын

Aha 😂thx for the reply

Well this episode took a weird turn towards copium… 🙄

@Runehammer1

21 күн бұрын

facts not matching reality?

@user-yl9pc5dz7c

21 күн бұрын

@@Runehammer1 No, the idea that you can eschew novelty in favor of a greater focus on quality. “You can get a lot out of a war between elves and dwarves…” Yawn.

@Runehammer1

21 күн бұрын

@@user-yl9pc5dz7c the entire thesis is not unmade by one example you may not enjoy. Cutting grass is mundane, but can be a vast source of creativity, imho

@Corvus-fw2hr

21 күн бұрын

Yawn? Doing something tread well vs. something novel half assed is the comparison. Elves vs. dwarves can be amazing if handled with dedication. I think novelty used as a seasoning in the familiar is welcomed, and total banana wagon gonzo is fun on occasion. I’d also say that jerking the wheel constantly for the sake of jerking the wheel gets old. There’s a reason that the hero’s journey pops up as much as it does in literature. (I know that example has some holes, but I think it still works.)

@richardextall2002

19 күн бұрын

​@user-yl9pc5dz7c There are always new ways of looking at well trodden ground. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust.