thread: 2008-09-23 : Nonformalism?
On 2008-09-24, Brand Robins wrote:
Vincent,
As a data point, that is how I play Dogs most of the time. You know if the person is taking, reversing, or blocking by watching the dice they move on the table.
Sometimes, in fact, we'll be talking, pushing forward a see, then moving the dice aside and moving forward a raise without stopping the narration to reference what is happening with the dice on the table.
Once in a while we do say "oh, I just took, in case that wasn't obvious"—mostly when you look up and see blank confusion on the faces at the table.
I think there is some degree to which this style of play is one of the (several) reasons why Mo finds Dogs to not break immersion, where you'd think on first blush it might due to its rules-intrusiveness.
