thread: 2009-07-27 : Resolving Player Conflicts by Reconciling Their Interests
On 2009-07-28, Roger wrote:
Hmmm. This is starting to look a bit like pushing the conflict around.
Before: The conflict is between players, who have competing interests.
After: The conflict is within players. Within their heads, they have interests in competition.
On one hand, woo, that dude just broke my dude's arm, so now my dude is increasingly bad-ass. On the other, man, I just sat there and let my dude's arm get broken and did nothing about it.
Unless you either don't care about the mechanics or don't care about the character, of course.
