07-05-2018, 11:42 PM
(07-05-2018, 11:30 PM)Sans Wrote: More generalized terms like "short, long, fast, slow, etc." more easily serve the circumstances of writing and writing RP, while also allowing the specifications of numbers for the actual RP process. Most writers do not want to make more specifications than need be, and definitely don't want to feel like it's a requirement to do so.
The problem with that is fast/slow mean different things to different people. If you bring over someone who's unfamiliar with guns, they're definitely not going to know what it means. Unless they do lots of google-fu. I could easily see fast and think "yeah, he can unload all 6 shots in a couple of seconds" where the original move's intention was for it to take about 3 times as long. Throwing in a simple number doesn't really pad out the word count or anything, but improves the comprehensibility a lot. Anyway, "about a second" still included the word "about". You can easily speed it up a little for the narrative.
And then, when you bring that to other things - such as spells - they don't even have the "gun" context to work off. So they almost definitely need the numbers. Unless we want to make some table in the rules about "fast means this" or something. But I don't think people would wanna have to open the rules just to scroll through some annoying glossary of terms.