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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 9040088" data-attributes="member: 85870">Well sure. I'm not suggesting that no authoring is done, or that it needn't be based on / extrapolated from preestablished authoring, or that one shouldn't try and make the authoring consistent.I'm just saying you can't claim that the process isn't arbitrary. Creating fiction doesn't somehow lose its arbitrary nature just because you claim to adhere to some quotient of (arbitrary) &quot;absolute fidelity&quot; to an (arbitrary) &quot;realist&quot; standard, when your judgment of adherence to&nbsp; those standards is already based on a thousand fictional things decided (arbitrarily) some count of X days ago.I'm not saying the process shouldn't be done. I'm saying it should be done with a wider multiplicity of concerns (one of them being player/character dramatic needs).And I can say this with supreme confidence because I've done it, and it didn't break my games (they didn't devolve into Toon absurdity), and it made them better.Are there times not to do it? Yes. Dungeon crawling being an obvious one. Dungeon crawling is on its face opposed to catering to dramatic needs.But the cries of anathema and &quot;the end of roleplaying as we know it&quot; around&nbsp; injecting dramatic needs into the fiction are massively overblown by the sim crowd. Once again, backed by first hand experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 9040088, member: 85870"] Well sure. I'm not suggesting that no authoring is done, or that it needn't be based on / extrapolated from preestablished authoring, or that one shouldn't try and make the authoring consistent. I'm just saying you can't claim that the process isn't arbitrary. Creating fiction doesn't somehow lose its arbitrary nature just because you claim to adhere to some quotient of (arbitrary) "absolute fidelity" to an (arbitrary) "realist" standard, when your judgment of adherence to those standards is already based on a thousand fictional things decided (arbitrarily) some count of X days ago. I'm not saying the process shouldn't be done. I'm saying it should be done with a wider multiplicity of concerns (one of them being player/character dramatic needs). And I can say this with supreme confidence because I've done it, and it didn't break my games (they didn't devolve into Toon absurdity), and it made them better. Are there times not to do it? Yes. Dungeon crawling being an obvious one. Dungeon crawling is on its face opposed to catering to dramatic needs. But the cries of anathema and "the end of roleplaying as we know it" around injecting dramatic needs into the fiction are massively overblown by the sim crowd. Once again, backed by first hand experience. [/QUOTE]

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