On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:28:24PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Roger Burton West wrote: > > RBW>Remember those arguments in the late 80s about interpersonal skills - > RBW>how much should you reward a glib player vs a skilled character? With > RBW>hindsight I see that as another foreshadowing of the f-n school of > RBW>thought, because an f-n advocate's answer would be "the character's > RBW>skill is the only thing that matters". One could even say that f-n > RBW>advocates are really not narrativists at all but _simulationists_ - > RBW>except that the process they're trying to simulate is not any sort of > RBW>reality, but rather the mechanical basis of genre fiction. > > Am I the only one who reads "f-n" as "effin'"? Is it supposed to mean something else? -- Chuk Goodin cgoodin@sfu.ca Alien Light GM http://www.phoenyx.net/alienlight ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
