thread: 2011-04-08 : Freeform
On 2011-04-08, Liam Burke wrote:
I wrote about this on the Knife Fight like five years ago! I like your distinction between procedural and mediating cues here. I wonder, though, whether there's a continuum of mediation. "We roll off if we disagree" is clearly procedural. "We roll off if we disagree and our characters are both involved" is presumably mediating (we must refer to the fiction to determine its applicability); however, it seems closer to the first rule than to, say, "roll stat+skill to accomplish a task." I think there's potentially more to break down here.
