Interactive Toolkit

From: Neil Smith <neil_at_...>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:24:57 +0100

All,

I was mooching around the web the other day, and came across four linked essays proposing the "Interactive Toolkit". They're at:

http://www.rpg.net/oracle/essays/gamesatplay.html

The first part is at:

http://www.rpg.net/oracle/essays/itoolkit1.html

There's some good stuff in there: the idea of recasting RPGs as "Storytelling entertainments" and some discussion of why hit points are a really bad idea. It's well worth a read.

Neil.