((As promised... features))

[lilith_rta]

Alright so we've gone over Motivation, Jumping the Shark (I should do Rails soon), The Great Divide... and now Features.

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[standing_dragon]

... Lilith there knows exactly how I feel about Features

[standing_dragon]

*Shakes head

So you both are right ... sort of.

[basil_rta]

[obligatory dino notation] Having been around the block a while ... [/obligatory dino notation

Re: So you both are right ... sort of.

[standing_dragon]

I... so very agree. This:

And this brings us to the most important point (at least for me): for a MU to be successful it must be able to incorporate and manage change -- the telling of stories demands it. Static relationships, characters and settings are anathemas to a successful MU.

Is succinct, and dead on. I'd add - "In fact, it may be that staff's only reason for existence is to manage player-pushed change and to insert thematic drift when things are too static

Re: So you both are right ... sort of.

[basil_rta]

And there is where I have to disagree and point to the mantra that there can be no static characters -- setting propagated characters have to be included in this. While features have a primary thematic purpose (and I would argue that this purpose is more to promote the theme, preferably by example, than to shepherd it), they have to be played and with play comes change