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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8654373" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Looping back to this, because I think it may be a low-key but very significant part of where the backlash against GNS comes from. Taking your word for it that GNS’s claim is not that the various agendas can’t coexist, but that there is the potential for conflict to arise between them, I think Edwards and Co kinda took that and said “therefore, a game should pick one and focus on it, lest it be incoherent” whereas the folks who take issue with the Forge don’t find the notion that these interests can sometimes come into conflict with each other particularly revelatory, and have all along been interested in developing systems that avoid or smooth over those conflicts. So what you’ve got is one group of people seeking the best ways to serve all of these interests simultaneously, and another group saying “eww, no, that doesn’t work, you have to pick one and commit to it hard.”</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8654373, member: 6779196"] Looping back to this, because I think it may be a low-key but very significant part of where the backlash against GNS comes from. Taking your word for it that GNS’s claim is not that the various agendas can’t coexist, but that there is the potential for conflict to arise between them, I think Edwards and Co kinda took that and said “therefore, a game should pick one and focus on it, lest it be incoherent” whereas the folks who take issue with the Forge don’t find the notion that these interests can sometimes come into conflict with each other particularly revelatory, and have all along been interested in developing systems that avoid or smooth over those conflicts. So what you’ve got is one group of people seeking the best ways to serve all of these interests simultaneously, and another group saying “eww, no, that doesn’t work, you have to pick one and commit to it hard.” [/QUOTE]

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