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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 7082317" data-attributes="member: 16586">I want to clarify something really quick. This is emphatically not what I look for in a game. It directly cuts against my interests most of the time. I am all for disciplined and targeted use of director stance to introduce compelling fiction to play through, enhance interest in the fiction, and to clarify the situation. We speak about things that go unsaid, speak to intuitions, and drives.   I believe this is an area best left to GM judgement. I am also interested in rules that reflect areas of the fiction that often go unrepresented in most mainstream games.Things that speak to our characters inner lives, social pressures, tension, stress, drives, emotions - the type of stuff that I feel is not often adequately enough considered in most play. I am fundamentally and deeply uninterested in distributing narrative control in play. I do not like it when games like Fate, Cortex+ or Night's Black Agents directly model narrative structures. I want the overall focus to be directly on the fiction. When Fate tells me I have to pay to use my fictional positioning it puts a sour taste in my mouth. When it tells me to set DCs based on dramatic need rather than the fiction things get worse. Mechanics like compels and GM Intrusion in Numenera are not something I am fond of at all. I am no more interested in player scripting than I am of GM scripting.All that being said, I can find a measure of fun playing these sorts of games. It just does not feel very natural to me. It's not optimal. I have to work at it in a way that I just don't when playing Apocalypse World, Stars Without Number, B/X or Dogs in the Vineyard. Because of its purposeful design I can adopt my own interests to the interests of the game in a way that is less difficult than playing Vampire or any game where our shared interests might flex and weave moment to moment. I don't have to struggle in vain so much. I can enjoy it for what it is even if I would much rather be playing something else. I am also glad its out there for people who really enjoy that sort of thing. Diversity of experience should be celebrated.Edit: Fixed significant typo. I meant that I find it less difficult to play in a way contrary to my general preferences when a game is clear about the things it is about.</blockquote>

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