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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9030174" data-attributes="member: 7027139">Also blorb-style, which I'm completely unfamiliar with, but at first glance it looks like it can enable skill play. Those I can name.No, that's not what I mean. Like, for example, a competition where participants submits screenshots of their Dark Souls characters and judges, well, judge their virtual drip, would be a competition, sure, but would not be representative of the process of playing Dark Souls. Or, OK, a less silly example: Dark Souls Any% Glitchless speedrun is way more representative of Dark Souls than Any% (where glitches are allowed) because the latter tests a completely different skillset. Which, by the way, is not a condemnation, glitchless DS is, in my opinion, mind-numbingly boring.Regardless.The idea that player skill at playing the game is a major factor determining success in a game with a participant with unlimited power who ultimately decides whether the player is successful or not, sounds, at the very best, dubious to me. One can pretend like the GM can possibly be fair and unbiased, and players' &quot;creative solution&quot; worked (or failed) because it would work (or fail) in the fictional world and not because GM liked how it sounds, but that will be an act of roleplaying in of itself. A pretense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 9030174, member: 7027139"] Also blorb-style, which I'm completely unfamiliar with, but at first glance it looks like it can enable skill play. Those [I]I[/I] can name. No, that's not what I mean. Like, for example, a competition where participants submits screenshots of their Dark Souls characters and judges, well, judge their virtual drip, would be a competition, sure, but would not be representative of the process of playing Dark Souls. Or, OK, a less silly example: Dark Souls Any% Glitchless speedrun is way more representative of Dark Souls than Any% (where glitches are allowed) because the latter tests a completely different skillset. [SIZE=3]Which, by the way, is not a condemnation, glitchless DS is, in my opinion, mind-numbingly boring.[/SIZE] Regardless. The idea that player skill at playing the game is a major factor determining success in a game with a participant with unlimited power who ultimately [I]decides [/I]whether the player is successful or not, sounds, at the very best, dubious to me. One can [I]pretend[/I] like the GM can possibly be fair and unbiased, and players' "creative solution" worked (or failed) because it would work (or fail) in the fictional world and not because GM [I]liked how it sounds[/I], but that will be an act of roleplaying in of itself. A pretense. [/QUOTE]

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