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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2791140" data-attributes="member: 18549">I did no such thing.&nbsp; I said that what you're calling Let It Ride isn't a rule, but a style of narration.&nbsp; Not a style of play, either.&nbsp; Just a particular manner of narrating a scene, specifically, skipping over details in favour of a simplified description so you can get on with the important bits.&nbsp; That there is a rule called Let It Ride that says &quot;narrate in this fashion&quot; does not mean that narration in that fashion constitutes using Let It Ride.&nbsp; Let It Ride, the rule, describes the mechanics in Burning Wheel that are used to narrate in the fashion described.&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; I'm proposing gamer anarchy over here.&nbsp; Rules don't necessarily enforce a particular type of play.&nbsp; Sometimes they just define the physics of a game environment.&nbsp; They may lend themselves to a particular type of play by making it easier to play that way.&nbsp; And there are rules like Let It Ride that generate a certain style of play by enforcing a certain descriptive style that avoids detail that is unimportant to the story, which eliminates the prospect of a play style that pays attention to any of that detail.This is, of course, irrelevent.&nbsp; Suddenly you're attempting to nitpick me because I don't believe that whassname invented this particular style of narration because he Named It, and made a rule in his game that says you have to narrate that way.&nbsp; I don't see the point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2791140, member: 18549"] I did no such thing. I said that what you're calling Let It Ride isn't a rule, but a style of narration. Not a style of play, either. Just a particular manner of narrating a scene, specifically, skipping over details in favour of a simplified description so you can get on with the important bits. That there is a rule called Let It Ride that says "narrate in this fashion" does not mean that narration in that fashion constitutes using Let It Ride. Let It Ride, the rule, describes the mechanics in Burning Wheel that are used to narrate in the fashion described. Yeah. I'm proposing gamer anarchy over here. Rules don't necessarily enforce a particular type of play. Sometimes they just define the physics of a game environment. They may lend themselves to a particular type of play by making it easier to play that way. And there are rules like Let It Ride that generate a certain style of play by enforcing a certain descriptive style that avoids detail that is unimportant to the story, which eliminates the prospect of a play style that pays attention to any of that detail. This is, of course, irrelevent. Suddenly you're attempting to nitpick me because I don't believe that whassname invented this particular style of narration because he Named It, and made a rule in his game that says you have to narrate that way. I don't see the point. [/QUOTE]

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