thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-15, Hello Sailor wrote:
Er, actually, I wrote that. My point was to toss out a brainstorm I'd just had to see if anyone could build on it, 'cause nothing more was coming to me.Let's take your hypothetical group of car-lovers. If they want to spend time arguing which sports coupe released in the last 5 years offers the best speed/handling ratios to the aspiring vampire hunter, great. That's "table talk" and noone's trying to discourage it.
If that same group of gamers wants to engage in some narrative RP that happens to include chasing vampires in a sports coupe, then spending time looking up the speed/handling ratio of the Chrysmouth Speedster in the "Insanely Detailed, Gothic-Punk Sourcebook about Cars" is detrimental to that goal.
Change "car-lovers" to "LoTR fans" and "sports coupes" to "members of the Fellowship" and you'd run into the same problem. For narrative RP purposes, it doesn't matter if Aragorn or Boromir has the better speed/handling ratio.
