thread: 2005-05-20 : Things on Character Sheets
On 2005-05-20, Vincent wrote:
Eric: that it happens to represent the character is a feature of the ruleset in particular, and unreliable at that, not any kind of fundamental given. That's from this of mine:
If you like, you can design your game so that the player's resources depend wholly on details of the character.
Or you can just as easily design your game so that the player's resources don't refer to details of the character at all.
Or a mix, that's easiest of all.
For the same reason, Emily, use "representation" if you wanna. Just as long as everybody remembers that representation isn't really what's going on.
