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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9026779" data-attributes="member: 6671663">It honestly depends what we mean by story. If we’re thinking of things laid down in prose, on film, etc, then no, gaming sucks for that. At the very best we get a first draft, and assuming we’re not Jack Kerouac or someone else who venerates unedited prose, that’s the easy part. We have to go outside game play for editing and revisions. On the other hand, there is a kind of creation that gaming is a lot alike, and there’s even a very good movie about it. Vanya On 42nd St. is a film record of a real group of actors who rehearsed an Anton Chekhov playing and performed it only for themselves and an invited audience. I don’t know how common that is I’m theater, but it’s not uncommon in classical music. Chamber groups - quartets and such - work together on music they want to master and reap the reward of a private success. In gaming we don’t get rehearsals, of course, but the idea of gaming as a kind of theater we make with each other for each other is one I like a lot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9026779, member: 6671663"] It honestly depends what we mean by story. If we’re thinking of things laid down in prose, on film, etc, then no, gaming sucks for that. At the very best we get a first draft, and assuming we’re not Jack Kerouac or someone else who venerates unedited prose, that’s the easy part. We have to go outside game play for editing and revisions. On the other hand, there is a kind of creation that gaming is a lot alike, and there’s even a very good movie about it. Vanya On 42nd St. is a film record of a real group of actors who rehearsed an Anton Chekhov playing and performed it only for themselves and an invited audience. I don’t know how common that is I’m theater, but it’s not uncommon in classical music. Chamber groups - quartets and such - work together on music they want to master and reap the reward of a private success. In gaming we don’t get rehearsals, of course, but the idea of gaming as a kind of theater we make with each other for each other is one I like a lot. [/QUOTE]

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