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Players

Players form the mechanical core of this game. The name may be bit confusing,

but outside of howto.gmi, players are always refering to the concepts described

in this file.

What is a player?

A work of fiction generally revolves around the acts of a number of characters.

However, not all characters are created equal. Some are fleshed out, some aren't.

Some, we care about them personally. Some, we only care about who or what they

represent, be it symbollically, or literally (think, Poe's Raven vs Imperial

Stormtroopers from Star Wars).

However, it isn't only characters that move the story forwards. sometimes, one

can spot a theme, or an organisation, or a natural phenomenon quite drastically

changing where the story was going.

These themes, characters, phenomena, organisations, and other things are all

Players in the great game of life.

They all have their own motivations, their strengths, their weanesses.

And, most importantly for this game, the audience may form an emotional bond

with any of them.

Types of player

There are five types of Player: Individual, Band, Army, Faction, and Theme.

Individuals

A player at its simplest, yet most complicated. A single person.

Unless a rule states otherwise, it probably assumes that the player in question

is an Individual.