Quoting Carl D Cravens :
> It's weird... for so long, I've been telling people that
> "story-oriented" roleplaying isn't just group novel writing. But I
> think that's exactly what designers like Vincent and Ron are trying to
> accomplish... they're not writing roleplaying games anymore, they're
> writing rules for group novel writing.
This is a great insight. I mean it's right there in plain view, but I kept
trying to see it as a roleplaying game and missing the real significance.
For something like 10 years I've been gradually meandering down the road from
my origins in gamist D&D through simulationism and then into storybook land
(and recently pulling back again), but I'm starting to feel a little lost.
RPGs and SPGs (story-playing games) overlap in the middle, and most of us
play somewhere in that middle. But where I used to see narrative as an
evolved aspect of RP, lately I'm starting to see it as othogonal to RP;
something that is non-RP, something from Outside.
Mike
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