Perry demands: “Describe various acquaintances as comic book characters without explicitly saying who each is supposed to be, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine the secret identity of each.”
This is fun for nobody. An interesting mental exercise, to be sure, but one that is preloaded with divisiveness.
First of all, there’s the ‘why wasn’t I included?’ thing. And then the ‘I disagree with what you said about me!’ thing.
This is written proof that sometimes things that Perry (and I) think are good ideas are actually bad ideas.
Once, right after college, we were organizing a Halloween party and, spurred on by Perry, I floated the notion of doing some horror-themed role-playing. The twist, as it were, was that we’d be playing ourselves. The twist on that twist was that our characters were going to be made by the person to your left or some randomly determined person. The specifics are, at my advanced age, fuzzy. Anyway, this led to progressively more heated questions from the players, like, “Why did you give me Icy Demeanor as a character flaw?” Friendships may have ended during the character creation process and, suffice it to say, we never did actually play as we’d initially planned.
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You’re a poor sport, I say! =)