At 11:45 2/19/00 -0800, Alex Ferguson wrote:
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>Subject: Re: Raaterovian definition
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>Mikael Raaterova replies to me:
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>> As i recall, there was a _lot_ of spine-lacking soft-pedalling in the
rules.
>
>It's something of the nature of the beast: a storytelling methology
>requires the ref to be flexible and adaptive, so it would be silly,
>and bordering on the oxymoronic, for it to get get too angsty and
>prescriptive about exactly _how_ one should be flexible and adaptive...
A game system is only prescriptive if the GM wants it to be; most GMs take
the results of the system as suggestions only. It never makes for more
work for the GM if the system makes detailed, concrete suggestions, and it
frequently makes for a lot less. The best way to encourage GMs to give
detailed descriptions is to give them lots of help.
>Cheers,
>Alex.
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Doesn't the fact that there are *exactly* 50 states seem a little suspicious?
George W. Harris gharris_at_mindspring.com
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