thread: 2005-03-23 : Participant Resolution vs. Author Resolution
On 2005-03-24, Vincent wrote:
Luke: "The the players are in disagreement about something at the table.
We say, 'stop, let's go to the rules.' Of course, the players can walk away from the table, 'I'm not playing.' But most decide consciously, 'yeah, ok, I'll let the rules resolve this.'
Which then gets into the territory Vincent's talking about. I may be wrong, but I feel like I've encountered very visceral player disagreement/conflict prior to that."
Sure. That's consistent with what I'm saying. The players agree to go forward with the rules; from that point on, they're no longer in (real) conflict.
The rules don't resolve the real-world conflict; the real-world agreement to go to the rules does. The rules wait, inert and unapplied, for the players to agree to use them.
That the rules are there waiting can certainly help make agreement easier, but that's not the rules in application.
