thread: 2006-05-17 : Six straightforward examples
On 2006-05-17, Ben Lehman wrote:
Nope! Nor Karma neither, for that matter. That's the reason I used Fortune.
Does this point to a fundamental difference between Drama/Karma and Fortune? I think so. You can't extend Karma and Drama mechanics without multiple players' involvement. For fortune, the dice sort of act like another negotiator—they give different and unpredictable results continually
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—Ben
P.S. A long, long, long time ago I said "I think that maybe the lumpley principle is half wrong." I was wrong, but, for what it's worth, my recollection is that this slightly-human-acting quality of randomness is what I was talking about.
This makes BL go "Okay, Okay"
You can do it with hidden information Karma mechanics, but those are functionally identical to randomness.
