[In a Wicked Age] Setting and events...
Landon Darkwood:
Vincent, I noticed that the current draft of IAWA sort of leaves out or glosses over all the discussion about setting elements that was in your 'Creating Situation: a practical example' blog post.
Why?
lumpley:
It didn't occur to me to include it. I figure that the game's rules do all that work.
Do you wish I had?
-Vincent
John Harper:
I do.
The Wicked book is a great guide to how to play the game. But that essay is a wonderfully lucid explanation of why you might want to play a game like Wicked in the first place. The book is so opaque on that point, it's not very useful as a book I can hand to a friend and expect them to go charging off to play on their own.
The essay shows the action of play from start to finish, and is great inspirational material. You read it, and you want to do that yourself. The Wicked book gives you the tools to do it, but I don't think it gives you the inspirational piece to create the desire for it. The book asks you to follow its directions without much of an indication of why it's going to be fun to do so.
That's a problem for certain audiences, some of which you probably aren't writing for. But that's my gut feeling after a first read-through. The book will be a hard sell to some of the people who I know will enjoy it most. For them, I'll send a link to the essay along with the book.
Landon Darkwood:
Quote from: lumpley on January 13, 2008, 02:39:37 PM
It didn't occur to me to include it. I figure that the game's rules do all that work.
Do you wish I had?
Yes, but maybe not to the extent that John's suggesting. Just an added step about teasing out places or groups or whatever - setting constructs, while you're teasing out characters, and then coming back to that when you talk about how to develop conflicts of interest and how/where to set scenes. I think the only reason it stuck out to me as an omission is because of how everything else is so right there on the page, in your face.
Nathaniel:
For reference:
http://www.lumpley.com/comment.php?entry=183
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