thread: 2008-03-01 : Respecting the fiction
On 2008-03-05, Ben Lehman wrote:
So, uh, to elaborate:
Treating all this stuff like it's one big lump of "continuity" seems to be to be the express train to crazytown. I'd rather divide it up like this:
The fiction has:
State (what's presently imagined this moment.)
Action (what's going on in our imagination.)
History of Play (what we've done in the past: 'established.')
Expectation (what sorts of things are reasonable for parts unrevealed)
Hidden Information (the above four things, but some people know it and others don't.)
Each of these is, functionally, a different subsystem.
yrs—
—Ben
