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[ursula]

A meme:

Ask me three questions. Ask me anything you want. Then post these instructions in your own journal, editing for style if necessary.

I am thinking about goblins, Morrowind, lentils, and algebraic topology vs. differential geometry, and not thinking about algebra.

Comments

[d-m.livejournal.com]

// 1. which is more limiting: a story- or rules-driven rpg?
//    (i.e. games where your actions are limited by the story's
//     needs (rolls and planning are compromised) versus games
//     where planning and rules trump the story's needs)

// 2. do you distinguish ideas and thoughts; if so, which do
//    do you "like" more?

// 3. are analogies worth the details they gloss over?

[ursula]

1. Limiting for whom, whose story and whose planning? I tend to be lazy about rules and obsessive about characterization, so generally I prefer plot and improvisation to long bouts of dice-rolling, but for everything there is a season . . .

2. My answer to "What are you thinking?" is quite often "Actually I was just remembering a conversation or a bit of writing . . ." So I suppose a memory can be a thought (one considers it) without quite being an idea yet. I guess I expect thoughts to be verbalized, so the set of ideas is strictly contained in the set of thoughts. The set of non-idea thoughts is too amorphous for me to like or dislike (and it's probably too big to make a set, anyway.)

3. One could attempt to avoid this problem by employing many different analogies, so that any particular detail is only occasionally glossed.