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bluegargantua) wrote2006-02-03 11:17 am
bluegargantua) wrote2006-02-03 11:17 am
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So Vincent Baker gave a talk at Vericon and from that I got an idea for a short little game to illustrate one of his points. This is very first draft and even when I think it's "all done" it may still be a pretty pedestrian game, but it's really meant as an experiment and a conversation starter.
The premise: We generally think of RPGs as having a narrative flow that closely follows a group of PCs. While that's the most common, it isn't necessarily the only way it works. The use of flashback or flashforward scenes shows that RPGs don't have to follow a strict chronological sequence. Taking this one step further, we can also say that each "scene" in a game can be totally unrelated to any other scene in the process of play.
The experiment: Blood and Dust: A game for two players and a world
later
Tom
So Vincent Baker gave a talk at Vericon and from that I got an idea for a short little game to illustrate one of his points. This is very first draft and even when I think it's "all done" it may still be a pretty pedestrian game, but it's really meant as an experiment and a conversation starter.
The premise: We generally think of RPGs as having a narrative flow that closely follows a group of PCs. While that's the most common, it isn't necessarily the only way it works. The use of flashback or flashforward scenes shows that RPGs don't have to follow a strict chronological sequence. Taking this one step further, we can also say that each "scene" in a game can be totally unrelated to any other scene in the process of play.
The experiment: Blood and Dust: A game for two players and a world
later
Tom
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Yeah, there needs to be more stuff about how buying things for a scene helps or hinders the scene. I only realized the filibustering when I was doing the example.
The thing is, Thorolf's scene (and really, his entire thread) won't get any sort of context until the end. Say Dust wins the whole game, he can use his final narrative to point out how Thorolf's crime caused kinstrife and blood feuds to become (more) endemic in nordic culture...which was carried out with them when Viking's raided other lands and became endemic in European nations, etc. etc.
Blood and Dust need never return to the Vikings ever again.
later
Tom