thread: 2005-04-25 : Technical Agenda
On 2005-04-29, anon. wrote:
TonyLB: "The notion that the rules can preserve setting details in the face of concerted player action is, I think, flawed."
Character action, I said. How powerful are your characters relative to the world around them? That's a technical concern.
Oh... now I'm confused. Is this an outcome of the mechanics? Or the setting and situation?
If I have a bunch of samurai laboring up the side of Mt. Fuji, and I play it in Capes, isn't the relationship between the world and the characters identical to Mountain Witch?
And, follow-up question: If you consider the moral basis of the universe as part of the "established elements of setting", does that make Dogs a roughshodist game? Or is it preservationist because it's always going to be a western with religious overtones?
