Re: mechanics of surprise

Neelakantan Krishnaswami posts, in part:

  The number of mechanical events has no correlation
  with the pace of decision.

Most of us in this newsgroup are using the term "pace of decision" to
mean the pace of player decisions in the context of the mechanics of
the game.  Brian Gleichman introduced the term and provided a pretty
good definition in that introduction.

As best I can tell, you seem to be using the term in some other sense,
as a measure of narrative detail.  If you want to talk about the level
of narrative detail, I suggest you use another term to avoid confusion
- "pace of narration", perhaps?

Warren J. Dew