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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5881377" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>What? No. I don't agree at all. Or maybe we just think about "narrative" differnetly.</p><p></p><p>But, to me, what you seem to imply is that... say, a noir gumshoe novel must try to claim that it is objectively better than Tolkien fantasy, and that Tolkien isn't "real" fiction, or somesuch. And it doesn't. It just has to claim that, at the moment, it is trying to be noir gumshoe novel. It has to claim that you might, <em>for the moment</em>, want to do one thing instead of another. But that's just for the moment, right now. It makes no claims on what you'll read tomorrow night.</p><p></p><p>Any author who goes beyond that's a bit daft.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, you have another book that presents other ways of doing things! Big whoop. You know, like how Jim Butcher can present you with Dresden Files in one book, and then in the back advertise and give you a taste of his epic fantasy series.</p><p></p><p>Folks sometimes speak as if there's some need to get a newbie EVERYTHING about gaming all at once, in their first dose. I think quite the opposite. People are flexible, and can learn over time. The players will not be ruined if you just give them one thing to start with, and show them other possibilities later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5881377, member: 177"] What? No. I don't agree at all. Or maybe we just think about "narrative" differnetly. But, to me, what you seem to imply is that... say, a noir gumshoe novel must try to claim that it is objectively better than Tolkien fantasy, and that Tolkien isn't "real" fiction, or somesuch. And it doesn't. It just has to claim that, at the moment, it is trying to be noir gumshoe novel. It has to claim that you might, [I]for the moment[/I], want to do one thing instead of another. But that's just for the moment, right now. It makes no claims on what you'll read tomorrow night. Any author who goes beyond that's a bit daft. So, you have another book that presents other ways of doing things! Big whoop. You know, like how Jim Butcher can present you with Dresden Files in one book, and then in the back advertise and give you a taste of his epic fantasy series. Folks sometimes speak as if there's some need to get a newbie EVERYTHING about gaming all at once, in their first dose. I think quite the opposite. People are flexible, and can learn over time. The players will not be ruined if you just give them one thing to start with, and show them other possibilities later. [/QUOTE]
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