Re: Simulationist versus Dramatist

On 03 Dec 2003 05:54:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren J. Dew) wrote:

>Wayne Shaw, responding to me:
>
>  >I'm curious as to how your style has changed.  Willing to 
>  >say?
>
>  Using the terms crudely I know, I used to be about 40% 
>  Gamist, 40% Simulationist, and 20% Dramatist; these days 
>  I'm probably about 55% Gamist, 25% Dramatist, and 20% 
>  Simulationist.
>
>Actually I was hoping for more detail - perhaps examples of situations you
>might handle differently now, for instance.

A lot of it has to do with campaign design issues and choice of
systems these days; I used to chose systems based on how authentic
they were; these days I tend to chose them at least as much for ease
of utilization and unbreakability.  On campaign design, I used to
chose general design for interesting play, but rarely messed with
events in-game for such, whereas I'm far more willing to do so these
days.

I suspect a lot of it came down to the fact running and designing
simulationist was a lot more work, and in the end, wasn't appreciated
any more by my players (perhaps less) than the way I'm doing it now.