thread: 2012-06-25 : "Conflict" "Resolution"
On 2012-06-25, Vincent wrote:
What about Task Resolution vs Conflict Resolution?
I don't know. It doesn't seem important to me to preserve those old categories, when we can talk about how rules work instead.
What about setting stakes?
Setting stakes is a component of some game designs, kind of like rolling a pool of d6s. It's not really any more than that.
Back in 2003 or 2004, some of us conflated setting stakes with conflict resolution, including me. It took me a while to figure out where I'd gone wrong. Some people still conflate them.
Then there was some kind of scene-wide dustup about setting stakes back in 2006 or 2007. I was in the thick of it. But it seems to me now that plenty of time has passed, whatever real or imagined crisis there was, there isn't any more, and we can talk about setting stakes again if we want to.
