On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Roger Burton West wrote:

RBW>Nobody expects to be able to codify the process of writing interesting
RBW>fiction such that anyone could do it. I'm not at all convinced that it's
RBW>worth trying with games.

No, but places like Writer's Digest make a fair amount of money codifying 
as best they can.  Seems like they can at least codify hack writing.  I 
don't know that it's unreasonable to codify hack GMing...

RBW>There's a timeframe split as well; I'll ask the players in advance what
RBW>sort of campaign they want (and usually run up three or four different
RBW>ones, including notes on tone, for them to choose between). Once the
RBW>game has started, I'm a lot less willing to tweak things.

That's true.

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Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net

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