tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post935560252010945602..comments2024-01-26T11:56:46.170+10:30Comments on ST Wild: On Roleplaying: Epiphanies in Game PlayShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-88925409941753415862014-07-18T14:19:01.663+09:302014-07-18T14:19:01.663+09:30hehe, turning tropes on their heads to surprise pl...hehe, turning tropes on their heads to surprise players can be oh so satisfying....Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-84103168131398211082014-07-18T10:57:23.740+09:302014-07-18T10:57:23.740+09:30Very true. It's particularly complicated when...Very true. It's particularly complicated when you get into more modern games where *characters* could reasonably expect to have both genre knowledge, and some idea about how these things work in reality picked up from the media. So the characters can end up having metagame knowledge to work off...<br /><br />Thinking about it, the idea of tropes and clichés has been around forever, just in more limited ways before genres diversified so much. Mediaeval plays have stock characters and plotlines, early novels were riddled with copycats and clichés, and even legends and folklore have some pretty clear types. So it's not unreasonable for characters to display a certain amount of genre knowledge even in period games.<br /><br />Another good reason that occurs to me is, if you start intervening when players seem about to take a deductive leap because they might get there too early, that's going to discourage a lot of fun stuff, both in dealing with the early success and its consequences, but also in the consequences when (like so many detectives) they actually get it wrong. I want to see players pulling a gun on the wrong suspect and leaving themselves open, or arresting someone innocent and getting into trouble, or having to come up with urgent fallback plans because they just burned the Tome of Demon Dismissing.Shimmin Beghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350037986748679919noreply@blogger.com