Post by Bubba Kush on Jan 11, 2013 13:44:07 GMT -8
There are some general frustrations that have been building up in me, primarily having to do with the spirit and tenor of game. Things like the general distrust towards what has been called (not my words) "ST Discretion", the tendancy to quote a single page or line of text for rules adjudication, and a default to system rather than role-play.
I'm not going to get into it and I dont want to argue but, in a setting where people ask if you're "winning", and where character creation consists more of restrictions and policing than synthesis amd creation, this restricts some of the enjoyment of game.
What if some people enjoyed game, not because this one power lets you do this cool thing, because of the macabre horror that exists between clans? But because there is no one maintaining "Does this feel like a Masquerade game", either in the player base or the STs, it becomes a compromise between those who want to play in the fiction of the game and those who refuse to compromise.
A one-sided compromise is no compromise, and what I desire is not for the situation to flip and for mechanics to be ignored, but for the allowance for story and player decision to affect the game just as much as a die pool.
It seems like everyone is concerned about 'being right'. There is no such thing in role-play. This is a game of magic, not roleplay, and magic is mysterious. That's why its magic.
I'm not going to get into it and I dont want to argue but, in a setting where people ask if you're "winning", and where character creation consists more of restrictions and policing than synthesis amd creation, this restricts some of the enjoyment of game.
What if some people enjoyed game, not because this one power lets you do this cool thing, because of the macabre horror that exists between clans? But because there is no one maintaining "Does this feel like a Masquerade game", either in the player base or the STs, it becomes a compromise between those who want to play in the fiction of the game and those who refuse to compromise.
A one-sided compromise is no compromise, and what I desire is not for the situation to flip and for mechanics to be ignored, but for the allowance for story and player decision to affect the game just as much as a die pool.
It seems like everyone is concerned about 'being right'. There is no such thing in role-play. This is a game of magic, not roleplay, and magic is mysterious. That's why its magic.