thread: 2005-06-07 : Periodic Refresher
On 2005-06-07, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
Nice, Vincent. I particularly like the little animation. It's endearing!
Thor: I think that there is some systematic principle (peculiar to a social context) which selects which procedures become part of system, when no deliberate perturbation of the default applies.
I suspect that this principle tries to maximise the fun output of the rules you select. Depending on how well-informed you are about how rules output fun, this has varying effectiveness, but in the realm of the hundreds of very similar old-school games, I would suspect that many people have well-tuned selection principles.
So, like, yeah. I guess I am implicitly passing judgement on GURPS by saying that. I'm having difficulty verbalising exactly the thing that links my comment to yours, but you are a smart man and I'm sure that you can work it out yourself.
