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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8750458" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>[USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] : So, at this point I'm convinced that you don't really rely on "Rule of Cool" in your gaming. You have a concept you think is "Rule of Cool" and it works for you, but it really isn't Rule of Cool. If you could put a thesis on it, it would be something like, "I will do whatever I can to support anything my players are enthusiastic about." That's a interesting paradigm but it's not "Rule of Cool". Of all of your examples, only 2-3 even seemed like they could be Rule of Cool, and the way you listed them didn't prove that conclusively. About the only thing you seem to be doing that you could definitely say is different than my style is you seem to rely more heavily on "Fail Forward" than I do. A huge percentage of the time you say you are using "Rule of Cool", it seems to be to prevent PC death which is "Fail Foward" and not "Rule of Cool". The rest of the time you are just using very conventional literary tropes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8750458, member: 4937"] [USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] : So, at this point I'm convinced that you don't really rely on "Rule of Cool" in your gaming. You have a concept you think is "Rule of Cool" and it works for you, but it really isn't Rule of Cool. If you could put a thesis on it, it would be something like, "I will do whatever I can to support anything my players are enthusiastic about." That's a interesting paradigm but it's not "Rule of Cool". Of all of your examples, only 2-3 even seemed like they could be Rule of Cool, and the way you listed them didn't prove that conclusively. About the only thing you seem to be doing that you could definitely say is different than my style is you seem to rely more heavily on "Fail Forward" than I do. A huge percentage of the time you say you are using "Rule of Cool", it seems to be to prevent PC death which is "Fail Foward" and not "Rule of Cool". The rest of the time you are just using very conventional literary tropes. [/QUOTE]
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