Comments on: It’s Not A Movie

By: ben robbins

ben robbins — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:05:18 +0000

"Sometimes in a movie the audience have significantly more information than the actors." Quite true, which leads to techniques like NormalVision to give players that kind of "audience" information.

By: rgordona

rgordona — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:54:47 +0000

This seems to ignore what I see as a major difference on the other side. Sometimes in a movie the audience have significantly more information than the actors.

Why are the heroes going into the warehouse, its a trap? Ah, but only the audience know that.

By: Reggie

Reggie — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:10:32 +0000

I agree the game should not be played as if the players ar watching a movie, having to follow the script that was predetermined by the writer.

To add to this: You can see the game not as playing out an already written script, but as the actual writing of the script. So afterwards the players can go: yea, we created that story!

By: JD

JD — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:56:42 +0000

Your first starred point there is quite valid. The player learns all that the character learns, at least at some level of abstraction, in such a way that the player is aware of player knowledge. He doesn’t know the words for a ‘fireball’ spell, but he knows that his character knows this. In other words, a player should always know what his character knows, even if he doesn’t know everything his character knows.