thread: 2009-05-13 : Now where WAS I...
On 2009-05-13, Vincent wrote:
It's a thing. "You get the die if you justify it" is not a good solution, overall (although it might be perfect for a given game). Often that winds up with the player creating a pointless insertion into the fiction, never to be referenced again, instead of the group treating the fiction as though it were real and salient.
Whether and how often Universalis falls prey to this, I don't know. I know you can play it rigorous, like you can In a Wicked Age, but I don't know how easy it is to play lazy. (In a Wicked Age is pretty easy to play lazy.)
