On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:24:22PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote:

>Once again, the real question in movie and book type fiction is never 
>*truly* "will the main characters succeed" but "*how* will they succeed." 
>You just have to make the latter suspense so convincing that your audience 
>can successfully forget that it's not the former.

The actors and script-writers and directors don't forget, though. I
think that's a key difference between RPGs and statically-presented
fiction: the tension comes from a _genuine_ absence of knowledge about
how the story's going to turn out. I think you that to do otherwise you
need players who are prepared to take a much more professional attitude
towards the game than is usual, and I'm not sure that it's necessarily a
good thing even if you have them.

-- 
Roger, gaming grognard
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