thread: 2006-05-18 : Two examples: unmediated drama
On 2006-05-19, JMMM wrote:
Hey, :)
> you're disagreeing with Brand about the moment of crisis
Ok, I must admit I hadn't noticed Brand's last post. (In my defense, I was thoroughly convinced that Yudhisthira's Dice was dead, pending a merge of some sort with Sin Aesthetics.)
In re-reading, I would claim that it's not so much that I'm disagreeing, as that I am bringing (probably undue) assumptions about what the moment of crisis is in the various examples.
In my conversation example, I assumed that beginning a conversation between the characters was a moment of crisis. Weird, perhaps, but that's what was in my head. (Ok, so maybe it wasn't the end-all-be-all of crises as far as crises go, but we're assuming the existence of shades of crisis, I hope...)
As far as your two examples are concerned, I've been reading and rereading them and I can't seem to find a way to place either of them in a game situation without it representing a moment of crisis, so I'm still having trouble seeing either of them as pulls.
Again, I freely admit that these may be undue assumptions on my part, so yeah, I can see how it might appear that I was disagreeing, when in reality, I was not. Honest, I wasn't. Like I said, this stuff is all extremely intuitive to me, including the bit about moments of crisis, but for some reason, I'm finding it damn hard to verbalize.
Cheers,
J.
This makes JMMM go "I'm JMendes..."
...the same from The Forge and Story Games. For some reason, my brain fused on "handle" and didn't equate it with "login"...
