{"id":757,"date":"2004-04-19T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2004-04-19T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T12:31:22","slug":"narramber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/narramber\/","title":{"rendered":"NarrAmber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forge discussion on Narrative play in Amber<\/a>. Ron Edwards (of Sorcerer fame) has a lengthy comment in the thread that’s pretty useful.<\/p>\n

As a grizzled Amber veteran, I suggest that your group can make the existing rules work well for their purposes (as you’ve described them), by “kicking the tires” a little. By that I mean ramping up your attention to certain rules, interpreting others a bit differently from their text, and ignoring or diminishing yet others – in other words, Drift. You’re probably doing it already anyway. Here are some notions about one way to Drift that particular rules-set.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, an excellent comment on the difference between fanboy-Amber and Zelazny-Amber:<\/p>\n

Interpret the Shadow rules in terms of impact on Story Now, rather than in terms of simulating some sort of metaphysics. Instead of being a Zelazny fanboy who wants to know “what if Shadow did this,” be a Zelazny-esque author and recognize how he used Shadow-based explanations to set up conflicts and constraints. That “constraint” is especially important; throughout the stories, Shadow’s malleability was far outweighed by the limitations it laid on Corwin rather than on his opportunities. Think of how difficult it was to get the Amber-ready gunpowder, how easy it was for the True Amber to stay hidden, how much fuckin’ running around he had to do after the jewel based on time-flow differences, and how Brand stayed one step ahead of so many other characters for so long. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That really rang true for me, in that I’ve commented on a number of occasions that the reason that things like mental-contact and “locate in Shadow” get abused is because players have their character act in ways that characters in a novel are too… “polite” for.
\nAnyway. The sort of thing I’m linking to mainly so that other folks might see it and find it useful (y’know… those that run Amber).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forge discussion on Narrative play in Amber. Ron Edwards (of Sorcerer fame) has a lengthy comment in the thread that’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}