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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7568465" data-attributes="member: 42582"><a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/narr_essay.html" target="_blank">Here is Ron Edwards</a> on the challenge of "story now" play to the participants:Given that theme arises during Narrativist play, what does it look like, and how limited or well-defined is it? This breaks down into three independent issues . . . 1) The potential for personal risk and disclosure among the real people involved. * High risk play is best represented by playing Sorcerer, Le Mon Mouri, InSpectres, Zero, or Violence Future. You're putting your ego on the line with this stuff, as genre conventions cannot help you; the other people in play are going to learn a lot about who you are. * Low risk play is best represented by playing Castle Falkenstein, Wuthering Heights, The Dying Earth, or Prince Valiant. These games are, for lack of a better word, "lighter" or perhaps more whimsical - they do raise issues and may include extreme content, but play-decisions tend to be less self-revealing. The test/challenge for the player is not so much can you solve this puzzle as can you take having to make this choice? I would tend to put Burning Wheel into Ron Edwards's "high risk" category; and can testify from experience that he has correctly classified Print Valiant as "low risk". I think Marvel Heroic RP/Cortex+ Heroic also falls into the "low risk" category. I'll leave the classification of DW to others with more experience.</blockquote>

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