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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8651570" data-attributes="member: 6795602">I’m interested in how Story now handles 2 things and am curious your thoughts.1.&nbsp; Most Story Now games I see cited have mechanics that are referential to in fiction character’s ability to perform a task even though the characters’s ability to perform a task is often fictionally unrelated or at best tangentially related to the outcome prescribed by conflict resolution.&nbsp; Are there any Story Now games where this isn’t the case?&nbsp; Do you think it theoretically possible for a game to exist where the conflict resolution mechanics don’t pretend to be related to character ability and what trade offs would be present in doing so?2.&nbsp; What keeps Story Now conflict resolution mechanics localized to the current scene?&nbsp; Is this absolute or can they directly effect more than the current scene?3.&nbsp; Can Story Now handle exploration at all?4. Can’t all task-resolution be framed as conflict resolution?&nbsp; Ex: I want to open the safe to see if I can find out what documents it holds.&nbsp; In classic d&amp;d play the failure state would be the lock is jammed. Which forces play forward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8651570, member: 6795602"] I’m interested in how Story now handles 2 things and am curious your thoughts. 1. Most Story Now games I see cited have mechanics that are referential to in fiction character’s ability to perform a task even though the characters’s ability to perform a task is often fictionally unrelated or at best tangentially related to the outcome prescribed by conflict resolution. Are there any Story Now games where this isn’t the case? Do you think it theoretically possible for a game to exist where the conflict resolution mechanics don’t pretend to be related to character ability and what trade offs would be present in doing so? 2. What keeps Story Now conflict resolution mechanics localized to the current scene? Is this absolute or can they directly effect more than the current scene? 3. Can Story Now handle exploration at all? 4. Can’t all task-resolution be framed as conflict resolution? Ex: I want to open the safe to see if I can find out what documents it holds. In classic d&d play the failure state would be the lock is jammed. Which forces play forward. [/QUOTE]

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