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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2790890" data-attributes="member: 13892">There's the rub - I never sell (or promote) anything that I write on the grounds that it's unique. Being unique doesn't ever really factor into things that I write, so much as being functional does. Bronze has some very specific design goals - one of which is not to provide a completely pre-defined world that characters merely wander through. Admittedly, that's kind of the point... Bronze isn't about telling stories, but about creating them. The fiction and the loosely defined setting serve a springboard for actual play, which defines the setting as the game unfolds (yes, mechanically) - much as a story unfolds as it is written. In games of Bronze, the players actually create the world as they play, much as Leiber or Howard defined Nehwon and Hyborea as they penned stories. Some of these questions are addressed in the setting section of Bronze (again, describing them in the fiction runs contrary to the genre). Even then, though, the details given are only the fundamentals (tech level, commerce, social structure, geography, etc). I want the players to define the Sisterhood of Eibon, the City of Night, and the Crypt of Knarl as they envision them. That is true - but unlike Swords &amp; Sorcery fiction, describing things in minute detail during character monologue makes perfect sense for horror. In Swords &amp; Sorcery fiction the world is rarely (if ever) spelled out, but rather is described in the background of the stories as they are told. In Sowrds &amp; Sorcery fiction, the heroes are the centerpiece of the action, not the setting. All of this may add up to Bronze being different (I wouldn't go so far as to say unique), but one thing is certain - these goals have certainly provided an unusual challenge where setting and fiction are concerned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 2790890, member: 13892"] There's the rub - I [i]never[/i] sell (or promote) anything that I write on the grounds that it's unique. Being unique doesn't ever really factor into things that I write, so much as being functional does. Bronze has some very specific design goals - one of which is [i]not[/i] to provide a completely pre-defined world that characters merely wander through. Admittedly, that's kind of the point... Bronze isn't about telling stories, but about creating them. The fiction and the loosely defined setting serve a springboard for actual play, which defines the setting as the game unfolds (yes, mechanically) - much as a story unfolds as it is written. In games of Bronze, the players actually create the world as they play, much as Leiber or Howard defined Nehwon and Hyborea as they penned stories. Some of these questions are addressed in the setting section of Bronze (again, describing them in the fiction runs contrary to the genre). Even then, though, the details given are only the fundamentals (tech level, commerce, social structure, geography, etc). I want the [i]players[/i] to define the Sisterhood of Eibon, the City of Night, and the Crypt of Knarl as they envision them. That is true - but unlike Swords & Sorcery fiction, describing things in minute detail during character monologue makes perfect sense for horror. In Swords & Sorcery fiction the world is rarely (if ever) spelled out, but rather is described in the background of the stories as they are told. In Sowrds & Sorcery fiction, the heroes are the centerpiece of the action, not the setting. All of this may add up to Bronze being different (I wouldn't go so far as to say unique), but one thing is certain - these goals have certainly provided an unusual challenge where setting and fiction are concerned. [/QUOTE]

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