(09-21-2015, 02:26 PM)Mia Moui Wrote:(09-21-2015, 08:47 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I use present tense, because it's the only one that makes sense to me.
Future tense makes my eye twitch.
Edited to add: It's not common in LARPs ot tabletop games I have been a part of.
I don't know how off the rails this discussion has become as I write this but this might be an artifact of older players like myself. Â Way, way back I did table-top RP with a group and we used future tense so that any action might be countered.
My character would stagger back and fall. Â And the other player goes, "my character would try to catch you before you fell." Â And so forth.
This kind of thing made RP take forever (entire weekends) but there was no Internet so what else was there to do?
Present tense can be countered. You just have to leave openings for people to react instead if writing everything as a "done deal."
I'll admit I didn't get into gaming until after the internet came around, but I've pretty much always used present tense. In table top games, I simply say, "my character tries" or simply ask whether I can do something before doing it.
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