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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8222684" data-attributes="member: 16814">I disagree.&nbsp; And I absolutely value notes and pre-planning -- it's not nothing.&nbsp; It's just not part of the game until it's in the game.&nbsp; This does help, in that it prevents the reification of notes as somehow providing a more real game just because you did them first and can pretend that it was always there.&nbsp; When it hits the fiction, it's always been there no matter if you wrote it down last month or just made it up.&nbsp; I'm not arguing that notes and prep don't have value, or don't influence play, but rather than there's nothing inherently special about the notes.&nbsp; It's all still ideas you have that get introduced into play, and when you had those ideas doesn't make them any different or special.So, yes, I absolutely see value in prep, but it's not more value than I see in a good improv framework.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both are ways to structure thinking so that the game fiction is engaging and fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8222684, member: 16814"] I disagree. And I absolutely value notes and pre-planning -- it's not nothing. It's just not part of the game until it's in the game. This does help, in that it prevents the reification of notes as somehow providing a more real game just because you did them first and can pretend that it was always there. When it hits the fiction, it's always been there no matter if you wrote it down last month or just made it up. I'm not arguing that notes and prep don't have value, or don't influence play, but rather than there's nothing inherently special about the notes. It's all still ideas you have that get introduced into play, and when you had those ideas doesn't make them any different or special. So, yes, I absolutely see value in prep, but it's not more value than I see in a good improv framework. Both are ways to structure thinking so that the game fiction is engaging and fun. [/QUOTE]

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