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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harpy" data-source="post: 5772680" data-attributes="member: 85243">I think it would depend on how the mechanics would be implemented.   There could be degrees of difficulty.  One way of doing it would be to  give out hero/fate type points.  The narrativst players would either be  getting more than the gamist players, in a certain sense being like a  handicap in a sport.  They just have more metagame currency to use to  help shape their characters actions.  On the extreme end of the  difficulty setting would be something to the effect of "your character  is a major protagonist in the campaign arc.  Your character can only die  or made completely ineffective if you so choose."  But just because the character can't be knocked out of the narrative  against their will, it doesn't mean that the character is immune to all  effects.  They can still suffer and have various situations and  conditions applied to them, some that might even be permanent.  So in terms of PvP, the gamist who attacks the narrativist might be able  to give a beat down, and likely can do it very effectively, but  ultimately the narrative is invoked and in whatever fashion the GM can  devise things will prevent the narrativst character from leaving the  play.  There is all sorts of story space for this.  It might be that the  narrativst dies, but then is resurrected to the chagrin of the gamist.   Maybe the narrativst character becomes a ghost... they key thing is  that whatever story arc the narrativst wanted to have happen will get  delivered up.                 I think part of the benefit is that pressure would be taken off the DM to have to juggle everything.  If the underlying mechanics can help avoid killing off the thespians while letting the hardcore players do the thing then life becomes a lot easier for the DM to focus on other more creative elements of the game.Having this kind of mod as an option is just a way for people to  negotiate the social contract.  Not everyone has a black and white  playstyle.  Some guy might be very heavily leaning on the gamist side,  but in the end what he also wants is his buddy who mostly plays indie  rpgs to be able to come play D&D and enjoy the fellowship.  These  kinds of mod would make the playstyles more explicit and let the table  figure out what the group really needs.There is a huge diversity of interests and usually people are a mixture  of competing interests and so this would just be another tool to  negotiate through all of those different tastes.What would also be useful with this mod is that it could help educate  the larger player base on playstyles.  We're the forumite illuminati who  care about this stuff and can articulate it in great detail.  95% of  the people I know who game don't have a clue about playstyles.  They  just show up and play, and I can see how the unreflective play can cause  tension which could easily be dealt with if people actually understood  the underlying competing aesthetics.  If you can at least partially  codify the playstyles into rule mods then it is a lot easier for people  to wrap their minds around them in a hands on fashion, rather than it  all being "theory."</blockquote>

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