Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8005506" data-attributes="member: 16586">I wanted to address something that has come up a couple times in this thread. There seems to be this idea that the campaign or story could be ruined by actions one of the player characters take. I really do not think our games or our characters are these fragile things that need protection. I contend the opposite can often be true. Exposing the things we love to real adversity or genuine transformative change is when we find out who they really are and what the world is really like. Play is really only interesting in motion.At the end of the day none of us can really say what is or is not the right call for any moment of play. It is a judgement call and it will never be perfect. We should not expect it to be. Part of what makes this medium so compelling is how raw, authentic, and messy it is. I think we all owe it to ourselves to embrace the mess. This passage from one of my favorite blogs gets to the heart of how stories are seldom really ruined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 8005506, member: 16586"] I wanted to address something that has come up a couple times in this thread. There seems to be this idea that the campaign or story could be ruined by actions one of the player characters take. I really do not think our games or our characters are these fragile things that need protection. I contend the opposite can often be true. Exposing the things we love to real adversity or genuine transformative change is when we find out who they really are and what the world is really like. Play is really only interesting in motion. At the end of the day none of us can really say what is or is not the right call for any moment of play. It is a judgement call and it will never be perfect. We should not expect it to be. Part of what makes this medium so compelling is how raw, authentic, and messy it is. I think we all owe it to ourselves to embrace the mess. This passage from one of my favorite blogs gets to the heart of how stories are seldom really ruined. [/QUOTE]

Verification