Cinematic Rule Set, Quickplay playtest
Last night Greg and I played unWritten using the quickplay con rules. Damn, it was good. Brendon, I wish you were there. You would have loved it.
I realized that the quickplay rules really gave a cinematic feel to the game. While the standard rules give a longer, more drawn out, “literary” feel to the story. So, from now I’m going to call the two types of rules: The Cinematic rule set and the Literary rule set.
The difference in the rules is that in the cinematic rules you only answer one question per chapter, which works out to 6 questions. Whereas, in the literary rules you are answering 9 questions. This doesn’t mean you can’t have cinematic, high action scenes in a game using literary rules. By changing the amount of questions that are being asked changes the pacing of the story that is being told.