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<blockquote data-quote="robertsconley" data-source="post: 9045888" data-attributes="member: 13383">Hybrids are the norm for this hobby. Folks may have a main focus when it comes to systems and settings but they will also throw whatever they think will help or be interesting.&nbsp; The first step when I do when I describe the new circumstances or to roleplay the NPC, is to think about what is possible given the circumstances and then I decide how to describe things or how to roleplay.The alternative is that you can decide how the new circumstances or how to roleplay first, and then look for reasons why that is possible or plausible. I find doing this to be highly problematic and prone to bias whether an individual or a group acting in a consensus does it. One bias that comes up often when making a decision this way in an RPG campaign is that it is rare that a negative outcome will be chosen outright. The result of incorporating this decision-making process into the mechanics is that failure tends to be minimized to levels that break immersion or destroy one sense of accomplishment.This is not a new issue either I experienced this with Lion Rampart's Whimsy Cards back in the 90s. Where playing a card meant coming up with post hoc explanation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robertsconley, post: 9045888, member: 13383"] Hybrids are the norm for this hobby. Folks may have a main focus when it comes to systems and settings but they will also throw whatever they think will help or be interesting. The first step when I do when I describe the new circumstances or to roleplay the NPC, is to think about what is possible [B]given the circumstances [/B]and then I decide how to describe things or how to roleplay. The alternative is that you can decide how the new circumstances or how to roleplay [B]first[/B], and then look for reasons why that is possible or plausible. I find doing this to be highly problematic and prone to bias whether an individual or a group acting in a consensus does it. One bias that comes up often when making a decision this way in an RPG campaign is that it is rare that a negative outcome will be chosen outright. The result of incorporating this decision-making process into the mechanics is that failure tends to be minimized to levels that break immersion or destroy one sense of accomplishment. This is not a new issue either I experienced this with Lion Rampart's Whimsy Cards back in the 90s. Where playing a card meant coming up with post hoc explanation. [/QUOTE]

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