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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 9024855" data-attributes="member: 7017304">There's a limit here that might not be so obvious: everyone need to already understand the fiction pretty darn well. Especially the referee.In Prussian wargames, the referee was an experienced military officer who had actually fought Austrian and French armies and knew personally what that entailed. For them, most of the questions that come up are not really resolving hypotheticals, they're pulling from experience to remember what had happened the last time they saw this. Sometimes they have to adjust based on new info (the troop's morale in context is very different, so do the break under these circumstances?) but then they're comparing two or more memories, inside of a context of doing this for a living for a decade or more. The players might be cadets without that experience, but they do have years of training. (Plus the referee might fudge a bit for pedagogical reasons but I digress)If I'm playing a Harry Potter game with a bunch of other Potterheads, I don't need or want a lot of rules for magic. We all know the feel of the magic system (which is a soft magic system) so we can just wing it. I'd probably use Fate Accelerated instead of FKR, but that's not a huge difference and if I wanted to play right away we could try FKR-style. But this probably wouldn't work if I wanted to play a game set in the world of L. E. Modesitt Jr.'s Soprano Sorceress series, because I'm probably the only one who's read it, and I can't give you enough information to really get yourself into the heads of the characters in a timely fashion. (Or you know way more music theory than me, also a problem.) To play a game there, it would make much more sense to build out rules for magic for all of us to work from. I would argue that FKR (and any other rules-light setup) requires a "shared understanding of the fiction" - something that well-written rules can provide instead. DnD doesn't require that we all 'get' how magic works in Toril. It simply tells us, in great detail.</blockquote>

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