Re: Change (was: (TFT) Jobs table: ...)

["gem6868" <gem6868@verizon.net>]

you're "at odds" b/c you aren't really getting what I'm saying.

A good example is the difference btw Tolkein and Fritz Leiber / Jack Vance. 
Tolkein writes for the modern mind - everything is explained, everything 
makes sense, no matter how it's possible that the narrator / reader could 
know them (whether philosophical - who's good/eveil - or practical how many 
leagues to Orthanc, etc).  Leiber and Vance purposely write for things to be 
"fantastic" and "alien", and no explanation is presented _purposefully_.  In 
the case of Vance (like Wolf) he even presents words he's made up or 
self-derived or altered their use, again without explanation.

This was the style in the 1950s-1980s for a lot of authors, and for a lot of 
game systems.  Saying it was "magic" meant you didn't have to explain to the 
reader / player everything (or anything).  I'm reading Vance now, and the 
"reasons" are sparse to non-existent.

So to a certain degree, conversations about trying to rationalize one's 
fantasy world / Cydri / Yrth whatever, are unnecessary.  The only 
conversation needed is if a major plot development is desired by the GM but 
the lynchpin cause behind it needs an explanation that the GM is struggling 
to provide.

-----Original Message----- 
From: raito@raito.com
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 9:25 AM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: Change (was: (TFT) Jobs table: ...)

And again, we're at odds.

Quoting gem6868 <gem6868@verizon.net>:
> Steve Jackson, et al, aren't trying (erm, DIDN'T TRY, last century) to
> present you with a world where things make sense according to the modern
> mind.

This is correct.

> I doubt he consulted or read Gies, or anyone else.

This is not.

I met Mr. Jackson a time or two when I lived in Austin, and though I
did not know him well personally, many of my friends did. This is
because I'm in the SCA, game, and write software for a living. By all
tales, he is pretty well-read in the area of history. But he writes
games people want to play and doesn't let history get in the way of
that.

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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