thread: 2005-03-23 : Strong Stuff Indeed
On 2005-03-25, Emily Care wrote:
John Kim wrote:
So by your view it was pointless. But I contend that it was FAR from meaningless. Quite the opposite. That he was constantly not using it was extremely meaningful.
I don't think any of us think it was meaningless, but the system of the game sure did, for the reasons Ninja J outlined.
And like Chris pointed out, if it did end up mattering in your game it was because you & your play group were enlightened enough to make it so, not because the mechanics per se helped you do so. Unless I'm missing something about Champions!
Chris: Love the term markers! I think of all the real world deely-bobs (dice, character sheets, etc) as cues. The big important ones like kickers, SA et al. are cues with big neon highlighter put on them so the gm & g_d & everybody notices that that's what the player wants to jam on. Markers, right on.
