03-18-2015, 02:00 AM | #31 | |
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Re: Have you ever radically changed campaign premise mid-stream?
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03-18-2015, 04:54 AM | #32 | |
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Some things were a little strange: personally owned automobiles have just about disappeared, after having been replaced by an automated taxi/rideshare scheme throughout the developed world (after we questioned it, he conceded that there must have been considerable protests about this). A robust, unforgeable personal identification scheme is used worldwide, based on analysis of personal physical and mental characteristics: he was never able to be at all convincing about how this would work. CERN was wanting to recruit people with "diverse skills" for a research project. We were told out of character that we would be trying to help socialise an emergent AI, and hinted that we would go through a portal to a fantasy world. My character concepts were an artist and interior designer, who was intended to turn into an illusionist, and then a doctor who was intended to turn into a magical healer. Both were rejected for lack of "diverse skills". After quite a lot of discussion of that phrase, it emerged that he didn't want characters with dissimilar skill sets, which was what we had thought, but for each character to have highly assorted and unconnected skills, for no reason that he was ever able to explain clearly. I theorise that he was wanting to have almost all the Hero system skills available for a wide variety of challenges and felt that randomness was the right way to achieve this, but I don't know for sure. At this point I abandoned the project. Bits of it have shown up in his other games, whence it became clear that the emergent AI was a "Magical Girl" deus ex machina, which are concepts I'm not keen on separately, and really dislike in combination. |
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03-18-2015, 07:47 AM | #33 | ||
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Magical Girl AI . . . that sounds weird too. But I'm pretty sure I'm just not acquainted with the precedents. |
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03-18-2015, 10:23 AM | #34 | |
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It's like what I've been saying about jokes: In a good joke, the punchline follows logically from the setup, but does so in an unexpected way. It's like the kind of computer programming problem where it's easy to check that a solution is valid, but much harder to derive the solution. A man says to a hot dog vendor, "Make me one with everything." Oh, and the man is a Buddhist.
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03-18-2015, 01:31 PM | #35 |
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Re: Have you ever radically changed campaign premise mid-stream?
He then gives a ten-pound note to the vendor and waits. After a while he asks "Can I get change for that?" And the vendor replies "Change comes only from within."
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03-18-2015, 04:11 PM | #36 |
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Re: Have you ever radically changed campaign premise mid-stream?
Desired expectations and allowable twists are a big reason why we even have genre names. So if I feel like a 1920s noir film, I won't get blindsided by the rubber alien horror story it became.
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03-18-2015, 04:22 PM | #37 | |
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The exploitation of man by man. And what is communism? Orange you glad I didn't say "Banana"?
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