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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 7651419" data-attributes="member: 150"><p>I think this is a pretty good insight -- one more way in which our expectations from a good game are very different from what we expect in good fiction. </p><p></p><p>There's a challenge there, though. </p><p></p><p>For Example: I work a lot with people putting together powerpoint presentations. They often assume that it's just fine to use the expedient of just doing a google search for a graphic and using whatever comes up, regardless of the copyrights of the owner of the image. </p><p></p><p>Now, for a small internal presentation, that's widely seen as not a big deal. And, like eating grapes in the grocery store, it's far too small a cheat for anyone to care about putting a stop to it. But that doesn't really make it okay. </p><p></p><p>So, maybe, because we create our games for an audience of 6, not 6 million; because we don't make any money on our games <em>(if you do, I want to hear about your system!)</em>, and because we don't have the time to invent whole new dialects every time we want to introduce a new culture... we take the expedient of making Dwarves Scottish, Elves French, and so on. Those are the grapes we steal. No one cares, it's probably just fine to do it that way, it's following long-standing precedents.... but it's not quite right, either.</p><p></p><p>I dont' know. My dwarves aren't going to stop being Scottish (and not even real scottish, but that over-the-top Mike Myers scottish from So I Married An Axe Murderer) anytime soon. But it's interesting to think about. </p><p></p><p>-rg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 7651419, member: 150"] I think this is a pretty good insight -- one more way in which our expectations from a good game are very different from what we expect in good fiction. There's a challenge there, though. For Example: I work a lot with people putting together powerpoint presentations. They often assume that it's just fine to use the expedient of just doing a google search for a graphic and using whatever comes up, regardless of the copyrights of the owner of the image. Now, for a small internal presentation, that's widely seen as not a big deal. And, like eating grapes in the grocery store, it's far too small a cheat for anyone to care about putting a stop to it. But that doesn't really make it okay. So, maybe, because we create our games for an audience of 6, not 6 million; because we don't make any money on our games [I](if you do, I want to hear about your system!)[/I], and because we don't have the time to invent whole new dialects every time we want to introduce a new culture... we take the expedient of making Dwarves Scottish, Elves French, and so on. Those are the grapes we steal. No one cares, it's probably just fine to do it that way, it's following long-standing precedents.... but it's not quite right, either. I dont' know. My dwarves aren't going to stop being Scottish (and not even real scottish, but that over-the-top Mike Myers scottish from So I Married An Axe Murderer) anytime soon. But it's interesting to think about. -rg [/QUOTE]
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