thread: 2005-08-30 : Coming-of-age Fantasy for Adults
On 2005-08-31, Ninja Monkey J wrote:
I'll tell ya, V., the reason it works so well in UTB is that it's about a fragile character in crisis with nothing but personality to draw on. There is no "child abuse rule" or "rape rule". It works, if I may say, because there's really nothing there but the character and everyone's desire to put that character in terrible situations.
Frankly, I'm consistently amazed by how well it works, given that the difficult color of the game is only implied. People just love to throw their own fears at each other. That's why it's scary, and that's why it's sad: everyone lays out the saddest parts of being a child. And that's something they bring to the game, not something I wrote in. They just always bring it.
