thread: 2009-07-26 : Very Briefly about Authority
On 2009-07-27, Vincent wrote:
Simon: Of course, any player without explicit authority can object, or players can explicitly allow events outside the rules of the game, but that's a social issue.
Yep! That's all I'm talking about. What the players decide to do right now trumps what the rules tell them to do, trumps what they've decided to do in the past, and even trumps what they promised to do.
(What happens then, whether the game continues seamlessly but changed, or crashes and burns, or anything in between, is up to the group. Lots of groups change their games' rules exactly this way, in the middle of the session, and no harm done, sometimes without even noticing they've done it. Lots of other groups, one hint of this kind of thing and it's recrimination and flames. Theory has to account for the whole range of possible outcomes, of course, and a strongly authority-based theory gags on the former.)
