Sunday, February 21, 2016

Mission/Goal based Role Playing

Cory Magel 
The group I play with most regularly moved to mission/goal based exp.....
Matt Miller
The idea of a 'mission' supports the metaphor of role-playing as 'squad tactical combat', with declared objectives. Thematically, I find that troubling. Admittedly, most Tolkien-descended fantasy (Shannara, Eddings, Goodkind, Jordan) has a 'magical stranger' as 'quest giver'. But Moorcock descended fantasy does not. Iunno. Maybe this is what attract me to FATE and dresden files, which sets up character relationships?

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