Introducing Narrativism to your Players

[Ron Edwards]

Hiya,

H'm. OK, Wulf, I'll spot you that, and turn it over to Decurio's authority as thread-initiator.

Decurio - what aspect of play or understanding of the system do you want to focus on in this thread? Please be specific.

That oughta do it.

Best,
Ron

[Decurio]

Hey All,
Let me see if I can clarify this a bit more: my group and I have been playing simulationist games for nigh-on twenty plus years, beginning with RQ II.  Coming from that background, its hard to make the leap to a "story first" narrativist paradigm, and I suspect that ut HQ campaign is abut as sim as yu can make a narrativst game!  However, my players are enjoying the narrativist bits that are beginning to creep in, and we are all becoming more accustomed to using a narr frame of ref.  

I suppose you could say we are a work in progress, as far as the narrativist camp is involved.

It certainly wasn't my intention to cause contention on the thread; everyone's comments have been helpful, even if posters are in disagreement. Its probably my classical background, but the thread reminds me more and more of a classical dialogue wherein the participants are trying to figure out what the QUESTION is in the first place.  But that doesn't mean that the replies haven't been useful; on the contrary, the disagreements have, if nothing, shown me that the Forge community is still trying to define aspects of the GNS model, and debate is symptomatic of a healthy intellectual climate.

Having played HQ for a few weeks now, the differences in sim and narr play-and the capabilities of each style-are becoming more and more clear.  At this point, my question has been answered to the extent I was able to ask it in the first place; I think more hard experience is going to be the best teacher for awhile, although I'm sure I'll have more questions in the near future.

Cheers!
Dec