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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8943267" data-attributes="member: 16586">So, when it comes to broadly comparing more traditional styles of play from the sort of play with the sort of play, I see in games like Sorcerer and Apocalypse World I like to think in terms of the frames we would see in the movie of the game.A game like Apocalypse World solely focuses the frame on its viewpoint characters. We follow them around and there are no shots that do not include one of them. We also get a strong sense of their internal monologue. What they think, what they feel.A game like Legends of the Five Rings does not just follow the protagonists around. It thrives in cinematic realism (not actual realism). There's a strong focus on the details the other characters around them get their own frames of reference. We see their own actions. Motives and emotions are inferred from action. We pan the camera over the scenery geography. There's an almost exaggerated sense of space/time. There's a lot more exposition.Part of the reason I loved our L5R game is that there's a real focus on the NPCs as much as the PCs. We get to know them a lot better than we would in a game like Apocalypse World where the only thing important about an NPC is their relationship to the PCs. Kakita Azami's journey is as important to the overall scope of our game as Bayushi Haruka (my PC).</blockquote>