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<blockquote data-quote="Chris_Nightwing" data-source="post: 6017815" data-attributes="member: 882">Process simulation:WHEN is the conflict formally resolved? If we roll a dice, when we know if it rolled high enough.- By WHAT vessel does the fiction emerge and how empowering is that vessel? Just like in reality, you are faced with a challenge, you attempt to overcome it, and your efforts are influenced by chance. Upon a failure, you might not defeat the challenge, or it might take you a long time, or it might provoke another challenge or put you in danger. Upon success, you overcome the challenge, perhaps quicker than expected, perhaps in a way that helps you overcome an upcoming challenge.- HOW well does that conflict resolution vessel capture the feel, spirit and conventions of the genre trope you're attempting to emulate/reproduce?I'm not usually trying to reproduce a genre/trope per se, as there is a bias in works of fiction towards success. My simple conflict resolution obviously lends itself to simulation play. The players may not succeed, they may suffer extraordinary setbacks, there is no need for them to follow the story I have in mind, but it's there if they want it. Co-authorship comes from their decisions to pursue things beyond what I present, and I am fairly ad-lib in this sense.You proudly speak about fiction-first interpretation, but I don't know what that means. Am I playing non-fiction-first?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris_Nightwing, post: 6017815, member: 882"] Process simulation: WHEN is the conflict formally resolved? If we roll a dice, when we know if it rolled high enough. - By WHAT vessel does the fiction emerge and how empowering is that vessel? Just like in reality, you are faced with a challenge, you attempt to overcome it, and your efforts are influenced by chance. Upon a failure, you might not defeat the challenge, or it might take you a long time, or it might provoke another challenge or put you in danger. Upon success, you overcome the challenge, perhaps quicker than expected, perhaps in a way that helps you overcome an upcoming challenge. - HOW well does that conflict resolution vessel capture the feel, spirit and conventions of the genre trope you're attempting to emulate/reproduce? I'm not usually trying to reproduce a genre/trope per se, as there is a bias in works of fiction towards success. My simple conflict resolution obviously lends itself to simulation play. The players may not succeed, they may suffer extraordinary setbacks, there is no need for them to follow the story I have in mind, but it's there if they want it. Co-authorship comes from their decisions to pursue things beyond what I present, and I am fairly ad-lib in this sense. You proudly speak about fiction-first interpretation, but I don't know what that means. Am I playing non-fiction-first? [/QUOTE]

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