thread: 2010-06-14 : A Bit of Hardcore
On 2010-06-15, Vincent wrote:
Alexander: Apocalypse World!
Everybody: It's cool with me if we have a leisurely kind of conversation without Rafael, but of course I'd rather not draw conclusions about his points without him. Rafael, jump in!
Teataine, Jim: I'm a believer in dice as psychological props, that doesn't bug me or throw me. I know what Rafael's talking about there. Even when the rules have the dice contribute content and direction, as I prefer, still the dice serve as important psychological props.
Like, (a) it's cool with me that the player's roll determined whether the character's mom lived or died. I'm excited that the dice contributed that. But also (b) given that the character poisoned his mom, I'm very glad that I didn't have to decide whether she lived or died. My decision to say "your mom's dead" was much easier, psychologically, just because a die roll stood between me and it.
