thread: 2014-07-18 : Objects of RPGs
On 2014-07-25, Vincent wrote:
Gordon: Try this. When you play Hearts, the object of the game - to have the fewest points when somebody hits 100 - fills in your normal interest in winning games. When you play Knaves, the object of the game - to be the first to 20 points - fills in for the same interest. You can't pursue your abstract interest in winning games, except by pursuing instead the particular game's object.
Supplants, stands in for, replaces, overwrites, fills in; whatever. Like a mail merge, you know?
