thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-18, Emily wrote:
Let the mad mad dash of naming begin!
They get at different things, though, really. Vincent & me have been talking about mediated mechanics (usually quantified mechanical procedures like "roll higher than your dexterity") which end up being "immediate" mechanics.
But there would of course be immediate mechanics (like drinking from the bottle in
Drunk) that are not mediating. (That one is a narrative cue that directly informs the fiction without having symbolic/representative cues that inform the fiction via human interpretation after weighting or "mediation" by those cues.)
