Re: Ability scales As Story

From: Wulf Corbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:33:33 +0100


On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:31:24 EDT, con1453_at_... wrote:

>This reminds me of Greg Costikyan's take-off on game rules, which started
>with something like: "Roll some numbers and assign random names to them."

It also reminds me of the old referee's rule: "roll lots of dice, completely ignore the numbers, and apply the result you had decided on before the whole thing started".

Maybe that's the Narrativist ideal, but it makes it a bit pointless for players to actually try and have an effect on anything.

Wulf

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