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Stumbling Around A Rebuttal
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Reply #45 on:
September 01, 2003, 08:32:23 PM »
Quote from: Jack Spencer Jr
*snip*
However, I disagree in another sense. I think that you will find more often a dice game with be played diceless more often than a diceless game played diced. Why? Because the so-called diceless method is a more basic form of roleplaying. It is easier to regress to this than to develop dice methods, especially on the fly. Such is my view.
No, I agree with you there, I just didn't emphasize it (for fear of spoiling my point). I did say you can ague dice systems suggest adding diceless resolution. They
very heavily
[/b] suggest adding that.
But a foregone conclusion, even in practical terms? Nah.
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Reply #46 on:
September 01, 2003, 11:33:17 PM »
Quote from: Erick Wujcik
Would the following be a correct re-statement? "All fortune-based role-playing games are really a fusion of fortune and non-fortune."
IMHO, yes. However, I believe you want a more specific statement. Their are two types of non-fortune mechanics currently recognized, Drama and Karma.
I would restate that, "All fortune-based role-playing games contain fortune mechanics and drama methods."
Are their fortune-based RPGs without Karma? I don't know, probably. However, you can't have a fortune-based RPG without Drama. Drama is the essential characteristic of all RPGS. Really its one of two defining features. All RPGs have Drama (role-playing methods) and either Karma or Fortune mechanics (game mechanics), or all three forms of resolution.
Role-Playing Games are any form of Drama that incorporates game mechanics. The two types of game mechanics are Fortune and Karma.
Thats how I currently understand it.
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Callan S.
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Stumbling Around A Rebuttal
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Reply #47 on:
September 05, 2003, 09:48:15 PM »
Quote from: M. J. Young
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Unless the rules themselves state that nothing can be done that is not covered by the rules, you can't escape drama as a resolution mechanic even by agreeing that nothing can be done that is not covered by the rules (agreement of the players is a drama mechanic).
Whenever someone says, "This is what we'll do", that's drama. Can't get out of it.
--M. J. Young
Just another thought on this.
Take this analogy: A: Say I'm a boss and a descision about how many widgets needs to be made. I decide to make it myself.
B: Same situation again, but this time I don't decide to make the descision myself. I do decide to delegate power to a subordinate and he's the one who makes the descision. Through hierarchy I'm responsible for him, but I'm not actually making the choice myself.
Now, in a RPG, if the GM just decides the outcome, its dramatic resolution. What happens if he deligates power to a dice mechanic.
Yes, he has responsiblity through hierachy there. But he's making the actual choice about as much as the boss who hires a subordinate to do the work.
I think the delegation of power is the point where drama leaves the equation. The choosing to actually delegate power could be argued as dramatic, but I think its only linked by responsibility, and its different like A and B are.
Just some extra thoughts.
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