Okay, I can’t leave this alone yet, so… check it.
\nLet’s say we want to chart coherently Narrativist games on an x-y axis.
\nI’m going to arbitrarily make the x-axis the “RPG-ish” axis, and the y-axis the “Story-gamey” axis.
\nAnd the scale is… well, because of what I could think of (or crib) for criteria — 0 to 7 on both axis. You have seven criteria you check off for each axis, and that equates directly to the ‘score’ for that axis.
\nX-Axis: Protagonist-based
\n[ ] Strong person-to-character ownership
\n[ ] In-game currency tends to be character-specific
\n[ ] Story structure is largely focused through character POV.
\n[ ] Play structure tends toward scene\/conflict
\n[ ] Use of task-resolution, or conflict resolution can ‘break down’ into higher-detail mode
\n[ ] Adversity mostly provided by one person (GM)
\n[ ] Limited narration distribution
\nY-Axis: Story-based
\n[ ] Character ownership varies
\n[ ] In-game currency tends to be whole-group or player-specific
\n[ ] Story structure is largely focused at narrator-level POV.
\n[ ] Play structure tends towards “turns”
\n[ ] Conflict-resolution-based system.
\n[ ] Adversity-creation is distributed across participants.
\n[ ] Automatically distributed narration
\nAs an example…<\/p>\n
\n….I’ll do TSoY, since most folks know it.<\/p>\n
\nTSoY
\nX-Axis: Protagonist-based
\n[X] Strong person-to-character ownership
\n[X] In-game currency tends to be character-specific
\n[X] Story structure is largely focused through character POV.
\n[X] Play structure tends toward scene\/conflict
\n[X] Use of task-resolution, or conflict resolution can ‘break down’ into higher-detail mode
\n[X] Adversity mostly provided by one person (GM)
\n[ ] Limited narration distribution
\nY-Axis: Story-based
\n[ ] Character ownership varies
\n[X] In-game currency tends to be whole-group or player-specific
\n[ ] Story structure is largely focused at narrator-level POV.
\n[ ] Play structure tends towards “turns”
\n[X] Conflict-resolution-based system.
\n[ ] Adversity-creation is distributed across participants.
\n[X] Automatically distributed narration (refreshment scenes)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHmm. Okay, that’s maybe a bad example. Looking at Mortal Coil:<\/p>\n
\nMortal Coil
\nX-Axis: Protagonist-based
\n[X] Strong person-to-character ownership
\n[X] In-game currency tends to be character-specific (for some tokens)
\n[X] Story structure is focused through character POV.
\n[X] Play structure tends toward scene\/conflict
\n[X] Use of task-resolution, or conflict resolution can ‘break down’ into higher-detail mode
\n[X] Adversity mostly provided by one person (GM)
\n[X] Limited and\/or Specific narration distribution
\nY-Axis: Story-based
\n[ ] Character ownership varies
\n[X] In-game currency tends to be whole-group or player-specific (for some tokens)
\n[X] Story structure is focused at narrator-level POV. (For theme document additions.)
\n[ ] Play structure tends towards “turns”
\n[X] Conflict-resolution-based system. (For theme document addtions.)
\n[X] Adversity-creation is distributed across participants. (For theme document additions.)
\n[X] Automatically distributed narration (For theme document additions… maybe.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd you’ll see apparently contradictory things checked in there, because in some parts of the game, certain things are true, and in others, different things are.
\nAnd its squishy, a bit, in it’s definitions.
\nAnyway, just me thinking on the screen. Input welcome, stonings artfully dodged.
\n((Staving off a tangent: Don’t tell me you can put most of DnD on the x-axis. I know that, except for the fact that the x-axis is ‘elements that are used specifically to create thematic story’<\/b>, and as we’ve said, DnD doesn’t have that Goal, so it can’t be charted on this thing. It would<\/b> get all those checkboxes checked for a chart where the x-axis is ‘uses these elements to create tactically-challenging play.’))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, I can’t leave this alone yet, so… check it. Let’s say we want to chart coherently Narrativist games on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}