thread: 2006-03-20 : Creating Situation: a practical example
On 2006-03-22, Vincent wrote:
Escalating inwards: absolutely totally 100%.
In fact that sets me up perfectly for my answer to Michael: the moral line depends on how things escalate, more than on the conflicts of interest themselves.
Sauron at Mt. Doom, for instance, doesn't represent a credible moral choice, even though he's one side of the conflict of interest. Instead, we look at what the protagonists are willing to do, and what they're not willing to do, to serve the interests of their side.
This makes LP go "Yes. Jackson's movies"
while I detest much about them did an essential, a necessary job of showing how someone like Boromir can be not an idiot or a loon and still want The Ring.
It is tricky to do that in rpgs, to make players feel the temptation for their characters without making them feel like their characters must be idiots if they are tempted at all seriously. Tricky, but not impossible.
