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Nornagest comments on January 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong
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The thought's crossed my mind before. I think there's scope for implicitly rationalist fanfic there, given the characters' powers and interests, but explicitly rationalist would be difficult to pull off; the story's strength lies in characterization, and bringing anyone too far out of character to make a point would be poorly received. In particular, you couldn't get away with tweaking the viewpoint character the way Eliezer and Alicorn have in their respective universes.
The alternative is an OC session, where the mechanics are used but the characters are different. In that case, if you did use a Rationalist Premise, it would almost certainly end up as leisure reading for people who are already familiar with the concepts (as opposed to leisure reading for people who are familiar with the canon but not the concepts). It would not be Useful.
It would be interesting as entertainment, given the existing composition of Homestuck and the sheer ease at which the game can be twisted out of recognition, but most of the reason I don't is because I can't model people like that.
Once again, Nornagest manages to say what I was thinking more eloquently than I could.