Autore Topic: Questo glossario è errato?  (Letto 8736 volte)

Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #15 il: 2012-07-02 09:48:46 »
Ti sfugge il fatto che... Anche se sai la risposta, non ti cambia nulla del gioco pratico di NCaS.
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Ampiamente possibile: ma ti ricordi che altri dicevano che sapere che il gioco X era narrativista piuttosto che altro dava loro una certa "visione" del gioco?


Che ai fini del gioco pratico è ancora peggio che sapere la differenza tra Conflict Res e Task Res.
Se "cambi modo di giocare" in funzione di quello che sai sulla CA di un gioco... non hai capito nulla di cosa sia una CA ^^
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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #16 il: 2012-07-02 10:26:23 »
E che l'unico modo per capire la differenza è... giocare a tanti giochi diversi  :)

Sicuramente per conoscerli, ma io non voglio qui sapere le differenze dei giochi (gli esempi mi sono chiari, tranne CNV che conosco praticamente per nulla), solo delle definizioni.
Secondario? Concordo che quasi sicuramente lo sia, ma insomma, penso ci possa stare come domanda, non mi sembra ossessiva.


Che, come ha detto Moreno in due post, è totalmente inutile e incomprensibile senza aver giocato. Non secondario: inutile (e dannoso).
Le differenze delle definizioni si capiscono pensando alle differenze dei giochi. Le definizioni da sole non esistono.

I "libri di testo" della teoria del gioco sono i giochi. I glossari sono lì solo come bignami.


In altre parole: What Moreno Said, ma ci tenevo a scrivere queste quattro righe.
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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #17 il: 2012-07-03 15:53:05 »
All of you are making this much harder than it needs to be.

Imagine that you are playing a game, a very ordinary RPG, nothing special or fancy about it. You have a character and this character has a big sword. There is a wooden pole set in the ground in front of the character. You say that your character swings his sword to cut that pole. We will assume for purposes of this explanation that this is, in-universe, physically possible for the character to do.

Now we split into two possible approaches to this situation.

ONE
Always, forever, no matter what, you must roll or apply a given game mechanic of any kind to see whether the character cuts the pole successfully. Or perhaps this "always" exists in vague range of difficulty as judged by the GM, but still, inside that range, the mechanic must be applied.

TWO
You consider whether cutting this pole is opposed by any other character or character-equivalent. Does any current action or pre-established action (even in the GM's notes) act as an opponent to this action? Does the timing of this action play a relevant part in some other circumstances in play? If yes, then you apply the relevant mechanic. If no, then you don't, and the character simply cuts the pole.

The first is task resolution. Tasks are resolved (mechanically) in the presence or absence of conflicts. A given conflict is resolved only if the cumulative tasks involved finally and eventually add up to its resolution, and this is an opportunistic outcome.

The second is conflict resolution. Tasks are only mechanically interesting (i.e. mechanically resolved) insofar as they are relevant to an existing conflict of interest, and that conflict of interest will be resolved through the application of the mechanics, no matter what tasks are or are not involved inside it.

The difference is enormous. It is not trivial, and there is no spectrum between these approaches to play and to rules. This is a binary and real distinction that applies to any role-playing rules ever written and played. All of the above statements that "it makes no difference" or that "once you learn it you can forget it" are false.

It has nothing to do with the scale of the resolution, i.e., how much time or effort or how many tasks are involved. It has nothing to do with whether the potential results are pre-stated ("stakes") or emergent.

Please think about Dogs in the Vineyard. Once the dice begin to roll, whatever problem or confrontation was in play will come to some kind of relevant outcome, and that problem or confrontation will at the very least undergo a profound change. This is what the dice are for. The various actions inside that conflict are not trivial, but they are not considered units of mechanics usage. Or to put it a little differently, this is why you do not roll dice in Dogs in the Vineyard when your character decides to fire a bullet into a tree for fun when he rides by it.

Many people have arrived at conflict resolution in practice when using task resolution rules, simply because they informally avoid using the system unless a conflict of interest is involved. This is a serious change from the written rules to the in-play (real) rules, for that group. The fact that they do not realize they are doing it, or if they do, they merely call it "playing right," does not mean the change is not real.

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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #18 il: 2012-07-03 16:26:01 »
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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #19 il: 2012-07-03 16:42:45 »
Fanmail to Ron from me, too!

Especially for this part:
Many people have arrived at conflict resolution in practice when using task resolution rules, simply because they informally avoid using the system unless a conflict of interest is involved. This is a serious change from the written rules to the in-play (real) rules, for that group. The fact that they do not realize they are doing it, or if they do, they merely call it "playing right," does not mean the change is not real.
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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #20 il: 2012-07-04 12:50:20 »
Innanzitutto sono contento la discussione sia servita a qualcun'altro.

Da qui:

Conflict resolution

    A Technique in which the mechanisms of play focus on conflicts of interest, rather than on the component tasks within that conflict. When using this Technique, inanimate objects are conceived to have "interests" at odds with the character, if necessary. Contrast with Task resolution.

In task resolution, what's at stake is the task itself.


Ecco le definizioni...  ;) Bastava guardare nel topic in cima alla sezione...  ::)

Come potrai notare leggendomi, l'ho citato nel terzo intervento. Il problema è precisamente il fatto che confligga con la definzione che ho linkato prima: questo perché finora questa prima definizione ha funzionato!
Non ho problemi a cancellarla, ma mi stupisco dell'avvenimento.

Chiedo a Moreno di dire invece dove mi sarebbe stata spiegata la definizione di Conflict, come asserisce qui:

Ecco, questa è la patetica situazione attuale della "teoria" dei gdr. E non c'è rimedio, puoi pure scriverlo mille volte di fila, anche alla stessa persona (ciao, Dairon!), ma è inutile, insistono a voler sapere di che colore sono le palline.


Io non mi ricordo di nulla del genere: invito di nuovo pubblicamente a non fare pubblicamente asserzioni sulle persone non corrispondenti a realtà, oppure a linkare dove sarebbe stato fatto.

Non rispondo alla sua risposta diretta per il semplice fatto che non si riesce a leggere: non capisco a che cosa stia cercando di rispondere. L'unica cosa che evinco è che invece di rispondere sta affermando che in NCAS il fatto che vi siano o meno risoluzioni non conflict non ha alcuna importanza. (personalmente, e rispondo come suggerito su un gioco che conosco bene, credo abbia una discreta importanza, infatti mi è venuto spesso il dubbio)
Affermare la cosa è legittimo al 10.000%, solo che non capisco che c'entri con il rispondermi.

Khana: eh, tu mi dici questo, e di per sé sarei anche d'accordo. A pelle.
Altri mi dicono che un pochino almeno gli è stato d'aiuto saperlo.
Rimango possibilista al momento, tutto qua.

I thank many times Ron for his post, most definitive; but I must say that I don't understand a part, the "Does the timing of this action play a relevant part in some other circumstances in play?" one.
(unfortunately, not having played DitV, I can't quite grasp the example in the end)

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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #21 il: 2012-07-04 20:37:02 »
Hi Dairon,

I am happy to help with the detail you asked me about. I included it because my experience in previous discussions.

Here is one example: the character is cutting the pole with his sword, because this pole is part of a magic ritual that desecrated the grave of a saint. Because of this desecration, the graveyard’s occupants have become ghouls, who attack and devour the living. The character is cutting the pole to disrupt the magic ritual and to restore the power of the saint over the graveyard. It also so happens that a number of these ghouls are charging at the character.

This is why timing becomes important. Cutting the pole is a single action, but it matters very much whether the character can cut it before the ghouls reach him. It also might matter if he can still cut it after one or more of them reach him.

Here is another example: several characters are struggling in a cabin at night, lit by a lantern on a table. Let’s say … Rebecca is trying to stab Joseph, Joseph is trying to leave the cabin, Samuel is trying to shoot Harriet, and Harriet is trying to knock over the lantern. Let’s focus on Harriet – her goal is actually to help Joseph by reducing Rebecca’s ability to see him.

In this case, timing is absolutely crucial. If Harriet can knock over the lantern before Rebecca can try to stab Joseph, then Joseph has a better chance to escape. But if Rebecca is faster, or if Samuel is faster, then her attempt to knock over the lantern might be stopped.

In both my examples, the action in question is very simple: to cut a pole, or to knock over a lantern. If we were to stay too focused on the single action, then the game system might not be able to handle the consequences in the conflict in a meaningful way. (In fact, I suggest that only a small minority of role-playing games have a system capable of handling the above situations in a fun way, without GM intervention.) But if the game focuses on conflict resolution instead, then the above situations can indeed be resolved, whether by encompassing the details in a big narration (Primetime Adventures, Dust Devils) or by including timing as a dynamic mechanic for smaller-scale actions (Sorcerer).

This is why I included the concept of timing, which is to say, the relevance of the single action within a context of numerous other actions. I hope it makes sense.

Best, Ron

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Re:Questo glossario è errato?
« Risposta #22 il: 2012-07-05 13:22:38 »
I think I got it, thanks.