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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5413916" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>Here's my take.</p><p></p><p>If we assume that treasure is something that the players consider a reward - something that good choices should bring more of and poor choices should bring less of - then not allowing their choices to have an impact on how much treasure they get is railroading. If they miss a treasure parcel because of a bad choice, they have to suffer the consequences of it; if they pick up extra treasure because of good choices, they reap the rewards</p><p></p><p>If we assume that the players don't care about treasure - the choices they are interested in making don't have anything to do with getting more or less treasure - then rewarding/penalizing choices they don't want to make is going to clutter the game and bias play in a way that the players aren't interested in. You should give exactly what the treasure parcel system says, because that's what the game assumes they will have. If they miss a treasure parcel put one in later on, and if they earn some extra cash somehow subtract it from an existing parcel.</p><p></p><p>For example: The player is interested in playing a specific role. The choice in-game is either play the role or go against the role, get some cash, and become more powerful. This is a choice the player doesn't want to have to make. Suddenly "playing the role" - which is what he drove an hour for and decided to miss the hockey game in order to do - has an opportunity cost attached to it. (That role could superficially be tied to cash - "I want to play a roguish thief who's always penniless so he has to come up with crazy schemes to get money." A choice in game that creates the opportunity cost might be something like living as a merchant, a safe and boring life, making a load of money.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 5413916, member: 386"] Here's my take. If we assume that treasure is something that the players consider a reward - something that good choices should bring more of and poor choices should bring less of - then not allowing their choices to have an impact on how much treasure they get is railroading. If they miss a treasure parcel because of a bad choice, they have to suffer the consequences of it; if they pick up extra treasure because of good choices, they reap the rewards If we assume that the players don't care about treasure - the choices they are interested in making don't have anything to do with getting more or less treasure - then rewarding/penalizing choices they don't want to make is going to clutter the game and bias play in a way that the players aren't interested in. You should give exactly what the treasure parcel system says, because that's what the game assumes they will have. If they miss a treasure parcel put one in later on, and if they earn some extra cash somehow subtract it from an existing parcel. For example: The player is interested in playing a specific role. The choice in-game is either play the role or go against the role, get some cash, and become more powerful. This is a choice the player doesn't want to have to make. Suddenly "playing the role" - which is what he drove an hour for and decided to miss the hockey game in order to do - has an opportunity cost attached to it. (That role could superficially be tied to cash - "I want to play a roguish thief who's always penniless so he has to come up with crazy schemes to get money." A choice in game that creates the opportunity cost might be something like living as a merchant, a safe and boring life, making a load of money.) [/QUOTE]
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