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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7404223" data-attributes="member: 82106">OK, I guess I'm trying to still understand what these notes and lists and maps and such DO. I think we've actually got that however, it was way back around post 1200 IIRC, so I suspect now we're talking about something 'else'. So, here's a small example:A player states the desire of his character to collect all of the Seven Swords of the Greatest Heroes. After some number of travails he finds himself in a situation, which I have framed, in which he can gain one of these swords, or he can save someone's life (lets assume they're innocent and worthy of saving, that's how I could frame it). Its up to the player. His beliefs are now being put to the test! Every element of play leading up to this was directed in some fashion to this point. It might have included many setbacks and other equally trying situations, but here he is now, and he's got to choose. I think that's pretty much the boiled down essence of the standard narrative mode of play. You don't HAVE to dispose of all background or 'myth', but you DO have to focus on the dramatic conflict, which is posited, INHERENTLY and can truly only come from, the player of the character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7404223, member: 82106"] OK, I guess I'm trying to still understand what these notes and lists and maps and such DO. I think we've actually got that however, it was way back around post 1200 IIRC, so I suspect now we're talking about something 'else'. So, here's a small example: A player states the desire of his character to collect all of the Seven Swords of the Greatest Heroes. After some number of travails he finds himself in a situation, which I have framed, in which he can gain one of these swords, or he can save someone's life (lets assume they're innocent and worthy of saving, that's how I could frame it). Its up to the player. His beliefs are now being put to the test! Every element of play leading up to this was directed in some fashion to this point. It might have included many setbacks and other equally trying situations, but here he is now, and he's got to choose. I think that's pretty much the boiled down essence of the standard narrative mode of play. You don't HAVE to dispose of all background or 'myth', but you DO have to focus on the dramatic conflict, which is posited, INHERENTLY and can truly only come from, the player of the character. [/QUOTE]

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