thread: 2006-03-20 : Creating Situation: a practical example
On 2006-03-28, Vincent wrote:
Oh, I should maybe say about the GMing between towns rule in Dogs - that's the GM's job wrt the players, it's not an identification of what's important in the game. The GM's saying "even now? even now?" is as much to keep the GM from manipulating outcomes as it is to accomplish anything positive.
The real situation in Dogs is the players' to create, escalate, and resolve. The GM gets to watch and be amazed.
This makes BL go "So wait..."
The fact that the "even now? even now?" creates a dialouge between the GM and players about Sin is purely incidental? I don't entirely buy that.
This makes VB go "incidental to the situation between the PCs."
No, of course it's part of the point of the game. But it's not intended to drive the situation between the PCs in any particular direction. It is, wrt that situation, unfocused grief.
This makes BL go "Ah, yeah"
Fair enough.
