Inadvertant prima donna-ism?
JoyWriter:
I'm totally rushing ahead!
You suggested that noble intentions can lead to dysfunctional behaviour, which seems a reasonable statement with a lot of juice behind it, so I decided to jump streight into the juice.
At the risk of confusing things, my effort is similar (but not identical) to the very thing I have been discussing, diving past the "point" of the situation revealed into the other "points" it can have.
I've suggested a different sort of "gamist" approach that seems to mesh quite nicely with your narrative objectives. Whether it can be designed for, hmm, not sure, but I wouldn't deny it's possibility. I suspect that if you can formalise an approach you can design for it.
So we can just say, "good people can do bad things" and thread over, happily ever after, or we could look at how to match that good intention with patterns of behaviour that adequately represent it.
Callan S.:
Well, I think before all that and outside social contract even, is deciding whether to attempt to play with people, indeed, even friends, who end up playing this way. To me it seems to decide to play will require compromise towards the qualities I described above...no amount of tricks or getting into the narration will get around that, unless your going in with a no compromise attitude but expecting them to compromise to you. I think pondering that comes first. Particularly because I think I've done most/all of the compromising, if it comes down to it. Might be wrong on that. But atleast in my case it's looking at alot of compromise towards something that's...well, gutless. I think it'd only work out if there's some compromise from them in terms not finding 'clever ideas' and instead deciding which passion comes first (and to be honest, I've only really found the wording to describe that here - so maybe that will help). But I can't decide for them/anyone if they will compromise. In a way, talking about all the techniques and ideas about narration, is wasted on me. Thanks anway, JoyWriter.
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