Narrative Control

Hi and welcome back to Narrative Control.  This episode I’ve got Shaun Hayworth on from This Modern Death and we’re talking about teamwork as it compares to niche protection in terms of giving each player a roll in the game and each character spotlight in the fiction.Hosts: Sean Nittner and Shaun HayworthLength: 38:24Show Notes[00:27] Intro to the show. Teamwork vs. niche protection[00:53] We have our obligatory bad joke. At least we kept in under a minute[01:25] Inspiration for this show. Our Atlantic City Dresden Files game.[03:40] Every game, at its core, has an intention that players get to play.[04:36] Original idea of how to keep everyone involved: niche protection.  Some examples: Dungeons and Dragons, White Wolf, and Shadowrun.[05:42] Where niche protection fails.  One role eclipses another or one role isn’t important in the game.[06:32] Example: Non-combat concepts in games that are built around a combat system.[08:33] One alternative to niche protection is to focus a game around a character’s motiva