Re: Difficulty Balance

Mary K. Kuhner wrote:

> One bit of infrastructure that I think is underappreciated is getting
> the player to describe in physical detail what her PC is doing,
> even if this has no game effect.  [zap example]

> If I hadn't "seen" this I'm not sure I would have gotten it to
> work.  But a lot of groups discourage this kind of description
> for fear it will take too long--which it does, unless it's a priority
> in itself.
> 
> You also have to be tolerant of massive delays if it's tem****arily
> impossible to switch from one PC to another--as in the case where
> one PC is scared out of his wits and the others are not.
> 
> I once ran a multi-player game in this style.  It can work, with
> enormous patience on all sides, but it was amazingly slow going.
> And I had only three players; I doubt it would have worked at all
> with more.  

If that's the Gathering game, which seems likely, yes. It didn't feel slow
at the time (at least not for *this* player) but it must have been,
because what I remember about it is immensely detailed.

It was probably easier because, whatever else it was, it was an exercise
in immersion.

   Irina

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