thread: 2005-04-25 : Technical Agenda
On 2005-04-29, TonyLB wrote:
Oh, I didn't take it as Roughshodist. I'm just trying to understand what you mean by it.
I'm in total agreement that a player in Capes has more ability to get their character up Mount Fuji than a player in Mountain Witch does. But that would be true even if I did posit (in Mountain Witch) a super-powered samurai who could pick up Mount Fuji and throw it to Mars, or if I did restrict my samurai in Capes to purely human physical feats.
That's why I have trouble seeing your formulation as being about how the characters relate to the setting. Characters and Setting are tools, but I have trouble understanding your statements in those terms. Do you mean simply that in Roughshodist the Character is a sledge-hammer and the Setting is a ball-peen, whereas in Preservationist it's vice-versa? Or, to put it in authority-terms, in Roughshodist are appeals to character traits for authority to narrate more effective than appeals to setting and situation?
