It’s always funny when these products of people thought too criminally minded to inhabit the British isles attempt insult.
As usual, Adam gets it terribly wrong.
First he mixes an awesome interview with a frivolous bit of fun. Time and place Adam, time and place. It’s enough to make one realise the jailbirds were exiled to Australia not just for their criminality, but their uncouthness. Talk about generational sin!
Secondly he spells my name wrong. Not surprising given that literacy amongst Australians is about as frequent as astronauts in Cambodia.
Thirdly he gets it wrong, since in our conversation I explained that my favourite class is actually the mystic/paladin dual class, yes from basic D&D where alignment is limited to Lawful, Chaotic or Neutral, which is a far more open ended and realistic approach than the double axis of good-evil and law-chaos of AD&D, wherein Paladins have to be Lawful Good. It’s basically the difference between being a proper Catholic and being a puritanical Calvinist. Trust an Australian to not be able to tell the difference.
Fourthly he mislabels the version of D&D he referred to. He specifically stated he preferred AD&D (because, obviously, lacking imagination, having pre-set railroading fundamental personality traits like alignment helps him know how to play) yet on his sideswiping he refers to it as Second Edition AD&D; which, of course, is completely wrong, since while AD&D was the second iteration of D&D, 2nd Edition AD&D was actually a version of AD&D that existed in its own right, the second one, wouldn’t you know, as you would if you could read.
As it happens 2nd Edition AD&D was actually decent and better than AD&D but that’s not what he referred to. And anyway, the alignment problem remained.
Fifthly, he admitted he always played a thief character. Which is natural I suppose, what with him being Australian, and that whole nation having a penchant for “backstabbing”.
But sixthly and demonically, he also admitted to enjoying playing a half-elf female character with a high charisma who liked stopping fights by saying “hi boys!” And presumably dropping some item of clothing. If that doesn’t give a whole new twist to the kind of “backstabbing” he wanted to indulge in and is not an admission of latent homosexuality, I don’t know what is.
In all the years I played RPGs the only female characters PCs played was when the player was an actual female.
I think I can safely rest my case as to whose advice in life you may or may not want to follow. Never mind who you’d be safest playing tabletop RPGs with!
Yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of people cross-charactering in my games. They always end up a playing a caricature of the opposite sex.
Would-be trannies are not welcome at my RPG games either.