thread: 2009-06-08 : Restating: Fictional Causes and Realization
On 2009-06-10, Vincent wrote:
Oh dude. Rob was like, "don't you think there's a danger inherent in having rules that refer materially to the fiction?" And I was like, pff. No. That's like, don't you think that there's a danger inherent in having no GM? Or don't you think that there's a danger inherent in having dice? Or don't you think there's a danger inherent in having only three players at the table?
There's a danger that you'll design your game poorly. Any given technique or category of techniques might appear in any given poorly-designed game. The techniques don't carry danger around with them.
And I wasn't talking about gamers who'd have a problem with the GM enforcing his vision over theirs, I was talking about people who had signed up to play a game with a referee having a problem abiding by a referee's LEGIT calls. Babies, yes: if they weren't going to abide by the referee's LEGIT calls, they shouldn't be playing a game where the referee makes calls.
Specifically: a referee's LEGIT calls. I'm not talking about an asshole here, I'm talking about someone fulfilling his agreed-upon responsibility to the group, to the group's benefit, instead of sacrificing his own integrity and the group's benefit to one single player's personal self-interests. If that player throws a snit, then yes, that player oughta grow the hell up.
