Observations of the Fox

Cortex had its "Hacker's Guide", D&D had its System Reference Document (and a few other games have followed suit). As I put together the bits and pieces that make "The Law" what it is, and allow for those components to be rearranged into something new, I'm thinking of things more from the perspective of a cookbook.  The ingredients are the fundamental components of the game, in this case I'm looking at... What makes an oeuvre?  What are the demographics of the setting? How is narrative resolved? What is the mood? What are the core rules?  The recipe is how those ingredients interact with one another... How do the demographics of the setting reflect the oeuvre? How do the core rules support the narrative? (every pair of the base ingredients can be combined in some way that provides some insight into the game we are planning to run) Finally, the presentation... What leads up to a game? What should a game in progr...

Nope. I opened up the blog to write something that had been festering away at the back of my mind a couple of hours ago...and I just can't remember what it was now that I've got a few minutes to start typing. There might be another post in a couple of hours if I can think of it then.