thread: 2006-05-25 : System and character sole-ownership
On 2006-05-26, Joel Shempert wrote:
OK, total light bulbs over here.
I've been bristling inwardly every time you've said something like "Character ownership is an illusion"—reading it, I think, as "Character ownership is irrelevant, both to discussion and play." So OF COURSE that's not what you were saying, and OF COURSE I should've known better, but. . .y'know. More a defensive baggage-thing than a considered opinion-thing.
So now that that fog is cleared, I can think about this whole area of RPG-age more clearly. . .I'm still not sure if this Scary Truth means anything more than "It's Lumply Principle all over again." Just a mental ass-kicking to say "And that includes Character Ownership, sucka-fool!" But I'm not "brilliant RPG-design guy" by any stretch ("You, yes you, are a designer" point taken, though), so you folks that actually think steadily and in varying degree professionally about this stuff will doubtless find exciting ramifications that I don't see.
Peace,
-Joel
