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Re: [RPG]: Noumenon, reviewed by Jocelyn Robitaille (5/4)
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Originally Posted by Jocelyn Robitaille
I think the fact that a whole bunch of people wrote it really helps the game to be about what you make of it. Generally, when a single RPG author tries to leave space for his readers' own interpretation of the setting, you always end up feeling that the author himself had a particular interpretation in mind - the setting is skewed just a tiny bit. I don't know what the writing method for Noumenon was, but I suspect that they basically gave a short pitch to each author, plus a list of themes and motifs, and let them have their way with it.
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Didn't someone at RP Open once mention that they deliberately prevented the authors responsible for the various rooms from learning what the others were up to, so as to get as much variety as possible?
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