thread: 2009-07-13 : How About Some Q and A
On 2009-07-16, Adam Dray wrote:
Vincent, I took a couple days to really think about your answer to me in comment 28.
I get what you're saying. I had not thought to consider them (DFK and IIEE) as separate (sorta overlapping) timelines. It's a very interesting take and I don't think I've encountered it before (or I did and totally missed what you and others were saying).
I'm not sure I like IIEE as an in-fiction timeline. It has been far more useful to me, as a designer, as an OOC timeline that establishes the fiction in steps. And that perhaps is splitting hairs, but there it is.
I understand tying IIEE to characters, better now, but part of me wants to back away from that and tie IIEE to any event in the fiction. IIEE still serves as the IC timeline for resolution of that event. DFK still serves as the OOC timeline for the resolution of that event (probably Drama, naturally).
But I get that nothing happens in an RPG without the character. When I say there's rain, it's rain that affects the character. When I say there's a monster, it's a monster that threatens a character. The character is the lens through which the fiction matters at all to anyone.
Anyway, this is me acknowledging that I think I understand what you're saying. Thanks for the discussion so far!
