Christopher Sean Hilton <xxxxxx@vindaloo.com> wrote:

> The overall purpose of any such system should be to focus and
> *enhance* the communal imagination of the players and the
> referees. Enough computer power exists today that we no longer have to
> be bound by paper and dice. But if the presence of large amounts of
> stored detail detracts from gameplay by limiting the communal imagination
> pool, then it's better to play by paper and dice without detailed
> storage systems for the setting.

Hear, hear!

David
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"Granted it can work a thousand, a million times faster than a human brain but it can't make a value judgment.  It has no intuition.  It can't think!" - James T. Kirk (D.C. Fontana), ~Star Trek~, "The Ultimate Computer"